"and the river ran red"

That's a quote from a translation of the Iliad (Achilles was mowing his way through the Trojan army); I'm going to write a post about Odysseus in a day or two, because archaeologists think they found his palace.

But this is about a unique natural phenomenon in Canada when heavy rains washed sediments into Cameron Creek, in Alberta, and the rain-swollen creek turned red, as did the Cameron Falls, for a short time. Not brown or ruddy beige -- really red. Pinkish-red, actually, but red enough for me.

River that runs red: Photographer captures rare phenomenon in the Rockies