Today was the hottest day of the year so far, approaching 90F in town (with a humidity of a mere 3%!). After a morning of yard work we drove to the Charleston Road trailhead to the San Pedro River, allowing the dogs to cool off in the water while I picked up some trail trash and took some photographs. We didn’t plan on staying along the rail for long, but we ended up spending two hours there. The lush green cottonwoods were a color sensation for the eyes.
At one point it even looked like Sara was chasing an antelope away. Or maybe it was just a weird-horned deer?
A few people were wading through the river as we passed on by. Another couple walked toward us on the new rail-trail; they had hiked to the Boston Mill a few miles downriver.
We followed the river the first mile, then continued on another half-mile on the rail-trail, looking at the colorful slag along the way. The metallic ore reflected the day’s warmth in our faces, adding to the already hot weather. The poor dogs’ paws were surely hot, too, and Sara took the liberty to run down to the river to cool off. She came back so muddy we had to wash her down in the back yard when we returned home, much to her dislike.
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