mistressofmuses

Tuesday we wanted to do *something* - again, there's distressingly little guaranteed summer left. But Alex was hurting, and Cy continues to be a weenie about anything that takes more than 20 minutes or happens at greater than 80 degrees. So we figured we'd head to the greenbelt that we often visit, since that provides nice cool creek water for Cy to wade in, and is a series of very easy trails that wouldn't overtax Alex.

Well... that was what we'd hoped. Except we got there, and the usual trails we walk were completely blocked off with orange construction fencing. There was a backhoe in the distance. There was no info on WHY the trails were closed, so I hope it's like... cleaning up from flooding or something, as the rain from the last few weeks caused a lot of flash floods.

So we decided to head the other direction, upstream instead of down. Still plenty of creek, and we haven't been up that way in a few years (because we like the other way better, but that's okay.)

Except then there were warning signs about DO NOT GO INTO THE WATER, DO NOT WADE, DO NOT LET PETS IN THE WATER. Apparently they've found blue-green algae in the creek, which is pretty toxic! Yay!

UGH.

So no wading to cool the dog down, but we went on a walk anyway, dammit.


Probably my best picture of the day was this skipper on this flower. :)

( 11 more below the cut, kind of a walk-along: )


And a picture of Cy, utterly worn out from his relatively short walk over paved pathways in the shade. (It was pretty hot, and he started getting a bit gimpy on the walk back, though he's fully recovered by now.)