Today was a spontaneous, incredible, beautiful day to the max!
It started off in a pleasant breakfast/lunch meeting with My Johnny and his lovely wife, and ended in my bathtub with a magazine and lots of numbing gel.
Did I hurt? Hell yeah, but it was SO. FUCKING. WORTH IT.
I mean just look at this - GORGEOUS!!
I guess I should explain...
We met up just for a casual nom and chat, and when we got ready to part, my sweet sister-in-law generously offered if I wanted to tag along on their venture to Red Rock State Park.
Needless to say, I was stoked just to get out of the house and see my siblings, but now I was going to see pretty things? Hell to the yeah!!
It wasn't until we got there and Irene impressively scaled a couple hundred feet of rock and dried streams that it occurred to any of us that I probably shouldn't have joined them on a hiking trip.
Luckily I had some supplemental pain medications and no fucks to give, because there was no way I was about to let some stupid inflammation keep me from nature's beauty!!
We hopped around there for a bit, and got some beautiful artistic shots as the sun began it's decline into the west.
If that wasn't enough, Irene had another surprise planned, with an additional venture to Fossil Falls - a place I didn't even know existed, much less only a couple short hours away from home!
If I purveyed the beauty of Red Rock accurately, then I have no descriptives left to achieve the level of amazing that Fossil Falls is.
This place is on the path of runoff from the once volcanic Mount Whitney, and with about a ten minute venture into the park we saw the most impressive chasm, forged by both magma and the strength of a now dried river.
The boulders and cliffs were formed of this porous looking stone, like pumice, but when you touch it the surface feels so smooth! It's almost silky.
I can't even... just... just look!
There's no photos of the anguish I felt when I finally relaxed at home and my knee did it's best impression of a grapefruit to date. I'm not about to try to guilt my already concerned sister-in-law, when the reality is I would take a week of days with that pain for the beauty and memories we made today.
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