In eastern Utah in August, the waters of the arroyo "Cisco Wash" were a series of stagnant puddles among a landscape of desert scrub.

Would "amid" have been a better choice than "among," in this instance.

 

All this talk of "scrub" and "wash" has got me craving a sponge and a bucket of soapy water!

 

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In Grand County, Utah, on August 22nd, 2022, Cisco Wash as viewed from the west side of a bridge on Cisco Highway.

 

Cisco Wash flows to the Colorado River. The land in the foreground is Bureau of Land Management public land. In the distance are Union Pacific railroad tracks and the Book Cliffs.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Book Cliffs (2187205)

• Cisco Wash (2240300)

• Colorado Plateau (general region) (7030678)

• Grand (county) (2002110)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• arroyos (landforms) (300008701)

• cultural landscapes (300008932)

• deserts (300008916)

• intermittent watercourse (300266554)

• public land (300008667)

• railroads (infrastructure) (300008591)

• scrublands (300386891)

• summer (season) (300133099)

 

Wikidata items:

• 22 August 2022 (Q69306529)

• August 22 (Q2828)

• August 2022 (Q61313034)

• Book Cliffs (Q4942933)

• Bureau of Land Management (Q1010556)

• Canyon Lands (Q5034224)

• Cisco Wash (Q49788019)

• Colorado Plateau (Q925906)

• Colorado Plateau shrublands (Q97999941)

• Colorado Plateaus (Q60140385)

• Colorado Plateaus ecoregion (Q2984378)

• Colorado River drainage basin (Q46126990)

• Deserts and xeric shrublands (Q1246061)

• Intermontane Plateaus (Q6047552)

• puddle (Q152841)

• Shale Deserts and Sedimentary Basins (Q113681653)

• Treaty with the Ute, 1868 (Q113679344)

• Union Pacific Railroad (Q725793)

• water stagnation (Q3046751)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Deserts—Utah (sh85037192)

• Public lands—Utah (sh2010108939)

• Rivers—Utah (sh85114415)

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