Rim Trail Redux, T-105A

1st 2:  bull elk right next to our driveway

Headed out to Sunspot this morning to do the same section of the Rim Trail we hiked the last time we were up at the cabin.  Great trek.

Three days shy of the start of autumn it felt very much like fall up there.  Dr. K, Willow and I enjoyed the outing very much.

After our hike we drove back to Cloudcroft, dumped some garbage and made a stop at Family Dollar to buy four gallons of water and two bottles of Brisk Ice Tea.

View from our property

Just starting off on the Rim Trail

View from Haynes Canyon Vista

Flowering

Huh?  Start of Rim Trail again

Hurry it up humans!

Flores

Dr. K and Willow

Common yarrow (Achillea Millefolium)

Willow and Dr. K

We're in bear territory

Go that-a-way

Aspens

More aspens

This & next:  old growth

Cyclops

Pretty sure this is Bull Thistle (Cirsium Vulgare, non-native)

What is this green stuff?

Last 3:  White-breasted Nuthatch (male)