One of the secondary reasons we like to visit our kids that live in Utah is to allow them to take us on a journey to several of Utah's national parks. We revisit favorites (all of them are favorites) and sections that are new to us. The end of last May to early June has been the most recent. Among the surprises were a chukar coming within a couple of feet of us looking for food and half an inch of snow falling on us at Bryce Canyon.
We suspected some cooler weather, especially
when we entered
Capital Reef National Park. The snow beneath the
trees gave promise
of it.
The wildflowers encountered were all exotic
to us easterners. Very few were recognized.
Perhaps that is what made it all
the more interesting.
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I have to admit that I took many more
photographs of the red rock views
than I did of flowers.
With the advent
of digital photography I seem to
have increased the number of
photographs
I take on a trip by a factor
of five
or more.
Hundreds of images may be
stored on wafers
not much larger than
postage stamps.
Culling may be done
at leisure,
after returning home.
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I usually refer to my daughter Ann
and son in law
Tom to
identify western
wildflowers for me.
After their
decades of being naturalist
rangers at many national parks,
their
familiarity is prodigious.
They are occasionally frustrated
to some
extent when I don't include
the leaves as a
help in identification.
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I had to include this image
which is definitely
not of western wildflowers.
This is how the village of Lake Placid
in the New York Adirondack Park
decorates their parking meters.
Perhaps it makes the deposit of money
less painful.
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