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There are several ways of looking at Delicate Arch. Depending on your preconceptions you may see the eroded remnants of a sandstone fin, a giant engagement ring cemented in rock, a bow-legged pair of petrified cowboy chaps, a triumphal arch for a procession of angels, an illogical freak, a happening -- a something that happened and will never happen quite that way again, a frame more significant than its picture, a simple monolith eaten away by weather and time and soon to disintegrate into a chaos of falling rock (not surprisingly there have been some, even in the Park Service, who advocate spraying Delicate Arch with a fixative of some sort -- Elmer's Glue perhaps or Lady Clairol Spray-Net).
-- Abbey, "Cliffrose and Bayonets," Desert Solitaire
Arches National Park
Read more about our October trip to Canyonlands and Arches National Parks.
Squirrels can be considered a pest. But when I've watched them climbing through the trees I can't help but admire them for their agility as they balance on the twigs of a tree.
January 2021: The final push to Delicate Arch after a nearly 1.5 mile climb out of the valley involves hiking on a ledge carved out of the rock. Around the bend a hiker reaches the destination, a natural ampitheater where the arch takes center stage.
Contrast and color over-exaggerated in photoshop. From Arches National Park, this landmark basically symbolizes Utah. Taken with a Kodak Star focus free 35mm film point and shoot, and scanned in photoshop.
Delicate Arch is a 65-foot (20 m) tall[1] freestanding natural arch located in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah.
It is the most widely-recognized landmark in Arches National Park and is depicted on Utah license plates and on a postage stamp commemorating Utah's centennial anniversary of statehood in 1996. The Olympic torch relay for the 2002 Winter Olympics passed through the arch(source: wikipedia)
On a recent trip to Arizona and Utah I was finally able to visit Delicate Arch that had eluded me during my previous trips to Arches NP due to time constraints. It is well worth the 1.5 mile hike to see it, not to mention the various stops to play around and climb the other sand sculptures along the way.
The actual GROM cone. XD Nocciola (hazelnut) and pistacchio. Chocolate and nut flavours are the best way to tell the quality of a gelateria. In Italy the artisanal ones use Sicilian pistacchios which seem to taste more delicate and not as robust, although the only other gelato I've had that clearly involved real pistacchios was the one from Maple Delights.
After a very dry winter and hardly any rain at all in August, we finally got a bit of rain on our garden this afternoon. I spotted this delicate little moth hiding on the underside of a lily leaf. Obviously instinct told him that rain drops should be avoided when you are that small and fragile.
... aka the picture on Utah's license plate. There is a girl lying down under the arch... gives you a bit of scale. Arches National Park.
Delicate Creatures | Australia
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." ~Rabindranath Tagore
Arches National Park
Read more about our October trip to Canyonlands and Arches National Parks.