Well…it was a long day on the trail but a nice one…and no, this is not the political one that I promised a few days back but there just is nothing going on in politics that I haven’t already commented on…and I can’t get farther behind so I need to do this one about any topic I can come up with…so you’ll get trail comments today…with it raining just before I went out, there was no one on the trail but me…no dogs, not families taking up the whole thing, and no people walking the wrong way…so that made it easy to go and I did…it is pretty neat that the trail really has some strong scents after a rain…the pine was so strong today but was mixed with other ones that you never smell…like flowers and others that I can’t place but there is normally a surprise in every mile…the last thing that was cool out there today (not for the bird) was a bird that had been run over by a bunch of cars that had flattened it into the same pose as the Archeopteryx, the first feathered dinosaur, that was discovered in China many years ago…weird, I know, but still kinda cool…