Need to bring lopper and cut down NM locust growing in various places on Route. Obviously pulling it out by the roots last year didn't discourage it at all.
When I was walking on the section that's right below Camp May Road, a gray station wagon stopped and the teenaged passenger in back asked me what I was doing. I said I was walking. Then he asked about my attire and I told him it was for sun protection. My interrogator then wished me a good day and gave me the peace sign as the car drove off. Odd but neat!
Pink wild roses are appearing. DON'T want to cut those down. When I saw some in bloom, cascading down a hillside, I crooned to them about how pretty they were!
Almost back to my car, I saw a scraggly coyote but even odder, it was briskly walking away from a cow elk following close behind. The coyote disappeared and the elk crossed the Bypass Route into the woods, right across the street from the Camp May Road intersection.
As I got back to my car, I saw the elk cross back to where she had come when she was going after the coyote. I watched for a while but then lost her when she went into the drainage. As I drove away, I saw a unidentifiable, bloody piece of flesh in the middle of the road. The radio was playing a song about needing to get back home which was what I was needing to do but I wish I had stopped to investigate. Maybe the roadkill, coyote and cow elk were all connected.