Sunset on FS172

After work today, Richard and I went for a drive along FS172. It's very pretty out there. Today wasn't the best day for enjoying the scenery, though. It was a lot cooler that it has been lately (in the 60's by the time we started back), but it was very windy today and there was a lot of dust in the air.

We were out there for about 2 hours, surrounded by spectacular desert scenery. We had the whole place to ourselves. We didn't see anybody else the whole time. That just boggles my mind. Were we the only ones out of the 3 or 4 million that live near here that were willing to forgo the TV or video games or bar scene or whatever and get out here to enjoy something so real and so beautiful? It doesn't bother me if we are. I don't like crowds.

On the drive out after sunset, we saw some bats. They would fly along about 20 or 30 feet in front of the truck, 15 or 20 feet in the air, for 5 or 10 seconds. I wonder if they thought we were following them.

There are a couple of pictures of Richard, one of the sunset, and several of the desert in the gathering gloom of nightfall.

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