Supplication II

Some time ago I used an Image from this series to tell the story of a wonderful old Utah juniper tree Bonnie and I found in Arches National Park as we were about to be inundated by an intense thunderstorm moving over Arches from the west. In the first Image, even...

Sweet and Sour(wood)

The cooler weather made me do it. I said I was going to wait a while longer before posting an Image about fall color, but the weather turned a bit cooler on Saturday and I couldn’t help myself: it was time. Besides, we need something to draw our attention, if...

In the Strike Valley

The geology east of Capitol Reef National Park is an amazing conglomerate of features. One of the more interesting of these is an elongated valley sandwiched between the uplifts of the Henry Mountains and the Waterpocket Fold and running parallel to the rock layers of...

And Bud Makes Five

The claret cup (Echinocereus triglochindiatus) is a small member of the hedge hog cactus family native to a wide area of the Southwest. The Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, a wonderful piece of nature just north of the town of Escalante, is a perfect habitat for...