Friday, December 29, 2017

Southeastern Utah Beauty

This is a post of pretty things I took  pictures of while wandering about southeastern Utah in 2017.
This is the view from our apartment.

Courthouse Wash in Arches National Park. Co-worker pictured at the base of the huge wall.

Blooming prickly pear cactus.

Petrified sand dune at Arches National Park with La Sal Mountain range behind

Purple aster growing from a crack in a rock.

Sheep rock in Arches National Park




Hovenweep National Monument. Cajon Unit.

PURPLE blooming prickly pear cactus.





Penstemon

Lupine

Area that burned last year. I returned to this site several times and watched the vegetation and succession of plants recolonizing this area.


Prince's plume

Skull of a hare


Skull Arch in Arches National Park

Spade-foot toad



Co-worker in Fiery Furnace

The wind made this plant make perfect circles





Oh, just some mountain lion tracks.


Showy milkweed

Baby Salamanders living in a pudddle







This black brush is a perfect circle. Beautiful.

Broken Arch in Arches National Park

Heart shaped rock. Of course.

Tumbleweed full of pink seeds.

Blooming buckwheat

Lake Powell



First snow storm

Hoarfrost

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