June is Trip month

I have found a lot of T. in bloom. In NM. In AZ. And now in Utah. It's a pretty cool plant.
It has really cool seed heads.



And I hope you are seeing this, but that is a bee-mimic fly working those flowers. I caught that sweet little photo at the AP location. Tonight, I found a hawkmoth working the group I found in Utah. Leave it to the Utah working group to employ a highly skilled, massively efficient organism for pollination, while in the Navajo Nation....well, I'll say no more.

A New Favorite Place: southern Utah/northern Arizona

These are from top to bottom: 1) Valley of the Gods near Mexican Hat, Utah, in extreme southeastern Utah near the Arizona border; 2) A canyon within Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona; 3) I believe this is the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area near Lake Powell; 4) An overview of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon NRA; 5) An overlook of Capital Reef National Park near Torrey, Utah; 6) Long Canyon, which I think it part of the Burr Trail inside Capital Reef; 7) A fantastic rock formation near Henryville, Utah.

And for all of this majesty and beauty, I must thank Liv, who I will forever be indebted to for being such a patient and entertaining tour guide to the American West.