Never Far From the Tree

Never Far From the Tree

Three weeks ago I shared an Image of a single cottonwood leaf at the edge of a small waterpocket in the upper slickrock in Zion National Park. This week I want to share with you the image that first attracted my eye when I initially reached the bottom of the wash. The...
Late Light in La Sal Country

Late Light in La Sal Country

They seem when experienced separately to be completely different worlds – the twisted sedimentary red rock of Arches National Park and the volcanic-spawned heights of the La Sal Mountains and Manti-La Sal National Forest – but they are so much more related...
As Far As the Eye Can See

As Far As the Eye Can See

From Dead Horse Point in Dead Horse Point State Park the sinuous path of the Colorado River, as it cuts its way through Canyonlands National Park, is a winding maze of beauty. To be on the Point on a relatively haze-free morning with broken clouds overhead and an...
A Drama in Cottonwood and Slickrock

A Drama in Cottonwood and Slickrock

The Upper Slickrock of Zion National Park is an incredible maze of towering Navajo Sandstone monuments and mesas cut by narrow and sometimes deeply incised watercourses that hold pockets of run-off which nourish the micro-environments of cottonwood, gamble oak,...
The Waterfall at the End of the Canyon

The Waterfall at the End of the Canyon

It exists as a hidden microcosm to a surrounding world so different that it is almost impossible to see how the two could co-exist. In the midst of an alien desert world of Navajo Sandstone and Red Rock, Lower Calf Creek Falls, at the end of a three-mile walk up Calf...