Fragrant Spring
After arising a bit late and rushing into the park, I hastened to find a quick composition during the brief appearance of sunrise color, but what I remember the most was the intoxicating fragrance of desert spring flowers that persisted on morning's faint breeze--in Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah.
Much of the western United States got a good bit more rainfall this past winter than usual--especially compared to recent years of drought across the west--and I'd hoped to find the arid parklands carpeted in ephemeral wildlfowers. As it turned out though, it wasn't a particularly showy bloom here in Arches, meaning you could miss it if you only looked from the car window, but some time on foot revealed a profusion of small yellow, white and occasionally orange, blooms covering several varieties of the hardly bushes that populate this red rock wonderland.
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Fragrant Spring
After arising a bit late and rushing into the park, I hastened to find a quick composition during the brief appearance of sunrise color, but what I remember the most was the intoxicating fragrance of desert spring flowers that persisted on morning's faint breeze--in Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah.
Much of the western United States got a good bit more rainfall this past winter than usual--especially compared to recent years of drought across the west--and I'd hoped to find the arid parklands carpeted in ephemeral wildlfowers. As it turned out though, it wasn't a particularly showy bloom here in Arches, meaning you could miss it if you only looked from the car window, but some time on foot revealed a profusion of small yellow, white and occasionally orange, blooms covering several varieties of the hardly bushes that populate this red rock wonderland.
Thanks for viewing.