After being cooped up for a day due to wind, the promise of
winds only 10-15 mph in the morning had me heading out to see flowers. My destination was Red Rock Canyon State
Park.
It was lovely – goldfields, two varieties of mimulus, scale
bud, coreopsis, phacelia -- all set off against the red striped cliffs.
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| Goldfields and Mimulus |
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| Scalebud |
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| Mimulus and Phacilia |
After looking at the flowers around the parking lot, I
headed up the north drainage to get out of the wind. I had a nice work out climbing out of the
canyon and new views of the rock formations.
I also had a pair of nesting prairie falcons in the cliffs above me.
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| Mimulus and Goldfields |
I always wish I had a geologist and botanist with me during my birding forays. Beautiful country.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful this time year. Everwhere mother nature on display.
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