This evening's easy 4-Mile run

I ran an easy 4.0 miles from home on the newly paved Littleton Road at 8:15 pm. The pace was 9:01 per mile. It was cooler this evening and there had been some earlier strong thunderstorms which finally broke the heat wave. The sunset was beautiful behind strong grays and whitish blues. The wind had picked up and carried random remaining raindrops in it.

Looking for images is an interesting task. I came upon some beautiful flowers on Ayer Road in Harvard as the sun was setting before my planned 4-mile run. I've wanted to capture images on the routes I run, but must confess there is only one image in today's collection which satisfies this requirement. It is this first images below and is called Juniperus horizontalis 'Blue Rug' or Creeping Juniper. This evergreen plant variety was introduced to us in 1914 by a man named Jacob C. van Heiningan of Wilton Connecticut. He selected it on the island of Vinal Haven in Maine. This plant is part of a relatively new (and formal) condominium complex planting at entrance of a new road called Snake Hill Road. It comes at about mile 0.75 on my run

These other pictures below were found on another favorite running route on Poor farm Road in Harvard, but were not actually part of today's running views. I include them here simply because they are now in bloom and will likely be viewed in a few more days.

Cone Shaped flowers in a group

Queen Ann's lace - font view:

Queen Ann's Lace side view:

Tall Pink Phlox: