There really are antelope on Antelope Island, along with bison and chukars. This 15-mile-long island in Utah's Great Salt Lake is a state park, accessible by a causeway. The lake is the source of brine shrimp eggs, dear to tropical fish breeders. The lake has a red cast when brine shrimp eggs are produced. Millions of pounds are dried and packaged. When reintroduced to salty water they hatch and are then preferred food for newly hatched tropical fish.
Antelope Island is a Utah state park. Some of the rocks there are 2.7 billion years old. The wildflowers are of more recent vintage.
Globe Mallow are in abundance in late spring. Fields are suffused with their orange-red glow. When the wind is blowing it is most difficult to photograph their wildly waving flowers. Patience is required to await a brief lull in the breeze to then capture them.
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I am neither a botanist nor a person of prodigious memory. Neither am I adept at identifying flowers from a field guide. I can usually classify flowers by color and height. These are white and short.
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These are also white and short.
These and the former flowers are found along the shore of the Great Salt Lake, growing in Oolitic sand. It is much easier photographing short flowers during gusty winds. While they are more stable, they are prone to vibrate in the breeze.
Sometimes it is more satisfying just to admire wildflowers rather than to endeavor to identify them.
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I could not show an image of the Utah State Flower without identifying it. The Sego Lily is most distinctive. Even I, as inept as I am, can find this one in a listing.
I do not ascribe to the technique followed by a friend of Kay's. Every unknown wildflower is classified as "a weed".
It is good to leave our cultivated flowers on occasion and wander in the woods and fields where nature tends to flora.
By the way, we really did see an antelope on the island
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