Here is a link to the interactive expedition map. I figured out how to alphabetize the "sites," and I added a couple of restaurants.
In the previous post, we had lunch at the Kolob Canyons view point (at the end of the road into the Kolob Canyons section of Zion National Park). Then we started a hike out to a view point. This is taken part of the way through the hike. The gray specks about in the center of the left side of this next image (a ways in from the edge) are cars in the parking lot where the trail starts.
See? Cars.
The weather was clouding up, and we didn't want to get caught away from shelter if there was lightning. Some of the party headed quickly out to the end of the trail. Some preferred to dawdle and take photographs on the way back to the car.
Lichens.
Flowers.
Bug, which I did not see until I got this on "the big screen." This is a closer crop of just a bit above and left of the center of the previous image. The bug looks like a petal at a funny angle (which is why I noticed it -- that strange angle, compared to the petals).
The weather looks ok to the east.....
Cactus flower buds.
I like the contrast between that big fat bud and the barely-there buds and flowers of the other plant behind it. That cactus is armed for bear, and that little plant behind it looks totally vulnerable, in comparison. Maybe this kind of plant prefers to grow next to cactus with huge spines, so it gets some protection from the cactus's defenses? Or maybe this one just got lucky....
Another bug I didn't see until I got these pics on "the big screen"........ A pollinator.
Shaggy peeling bark.
Growing from the crack in a rock.
I think this was looking west.....
This is two pics, taken one after the other, one more north and one more south. I made the two into one by hand. I believe you'll see a bigger version if you click on the pic.
This next image makes it look like the worst of the weather has just gone over us. It looks like it might have rained, but I was not aware of any precipitation. Note parking lot near left edge,
Another tree with shaggy peeling bark. This looks like it's just begging to be separated into thin fibers. I wonder what they would be good for......
As much as we didn't want it to thunder over us, we could see that it hadn't rained for a while, and couldn't wish for more dryness for everything trying to grow here....
Purple.
Reunited; in the car; headed back out of the park. Looking south, from just south of Kolob Canyons view point.
Here is a link to the next post about the Grand Canyon trip.
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