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Diverse walk in the Weavers

01 Hedgehog cactus blooms Weaver mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

I’ve been home in Yarnell this weekend and it feels like summer. (Especially compared to the snow on the North Rim.)

02 Cactus anomoly Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x689)

Cactus blooming…

03 Poppies Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

…flowers popping with color.04 Flowering Prickly Pear Cactus Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

Every where I turned something caught my eye.

05 Century Plant Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

Or caught my pants.

06 Looking SE towards Yarnell Weaver Mts AZ (800x600)

What a beautiful world we live in.

07 Unknown colorful bug Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

From the small and unusual…

08 Ferns under rock Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

…to a tiny hidden alcove of usual desert plants.

09 Mike Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (600x800)

We can look down on the world from above,

10 Turkey vulture Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x665)

or look up at the sky from below.

11 Granite lizard Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

As life scurries along,

12 Gaelyn Weaver Mts yarnell AZ (800x600)

I just want to enjoy it all.

13 Unknown flower Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

The sun reflects on one flower,

14 Tiny unknown white flowers Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (600x800)

and barely finds another.

15 Old Century Plant stalks reach for the sky above the boulders Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

The old stalks may lean towards the earth…

16 Young Century Plant stalk against boulder background Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

…while the young reach for the sky.

17 Pond Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

And water gathers in the draw…

18 Dragonflies on pond Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

…providing a playground.

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Water flows in the Desert

Storm building over the Painted Desert to the north
I always feel blessed and in awe when rain comes to the desert.

Rain covers the diminishing Echo Cliffs to the east
On the drive home the storm built rapidly.

Breaking over the Vermillion Cliffs to the west
Yet already I could see a break where the sun struggled to burn through.

Vermillion Cliffs to the west
And it conquered as the clouds continued to carry their wet load away.

Colorado River in Marble Canyon to the northeast
Look closely up river to see the sediments of the Paria River mixing with the Colorado.

The Colorado River suffers the lack of sediments because the Glen Canyon Dam holds them back.

The mix creates an interesting pattern.

All the little side creeks were flowing towards the mighty Colorado.

But the sun shone on the meadows as I returned towards Grand Canyon.
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