On The Shady Side
Apr 22, 2019 09:08:55 #
Cany143 wrote:
Arches Nat'l Park, late afternoon, clearing sky. Familiar places, and the first of this season's Indian Paintbrush.
Apr 22, 2019 09:16:33 #
Beautiful job on these Jim. Is that the Indian Paintbrush in #2? Beautiful color.
Apr 22, 2019 09:19:27 #
clownfish1
Loc: Orlando, FL (32808)
like the red flowers-all are good. Been to Arches and did not see these
Apr 22, 2019 09:30:54 #
Apr 22, 2019 09:45:23 #
Lovely, as usual.
--Bob
--Bob
Cany143 wrote:
Arches Nat'l Park, late afternoon, clearing sky. Familiar places, and the first of this season's Indian Paintbrush.
Apr 22, 2019 10:23:47 #
Apr 22, 2019 11:04:29 #
I am glad that you included the living nature with the desert rocks, Jim.
It makes an interesting contrast and the third frame shows the "first floor" arch still in making.
An observation perhaps for the next thousand years.
It makes an interesting contrast and the third frame shows the "first floor" arch still in making.
An observation perhaps for the next thousand years.
Apr 22, 2019 11:15:03 #
Apr 22, 2019 11:17:30 #
Apr 22, 2019 11:30:58 #
Apr 22, 2019 12:24:37 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
As ever, thanks for taking a look, and thanks for your comments, folks.
A couple of notes:
Spidey: yes, the red flowers are Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja miniata, etc). Its a common but very 'showy' small (generally 8"-10" tall) red flower that grows in clumps and blooms briefly this time of the year. In mid-summer, a slightly different and larger (12"-15" tall) but typically less vivid sub-species will similarly bloom. I've tried to transplant them, and tried to grow them from seed in my yard, but to no avail because they're somewhat parasitic in the sense that their roots need to intermingle with the roots of other native desert plants --sagebrush, blackbrush, certain of the C-4 grasses such as Indian Ricegrass and Dropseed-- and pull nutrients from those.
Paul: you nailed it, geologically. Water --either by the dissolving action upon the CaCO2 that 'cements' individual grains of sand into rock, or by the freeze/thaw action that acts as a lever that reduces big rocks into smaller rocks with more surface to be acted upon by water-- is what reduces rock. Some day, this small bowl that holds water may eventually dissolve its way through the rock, and produce another arch. Odds are, though, that the existing arch ('Eye of the Whale Arch') may have long since collapsed by that time.
A couple of notes:
Spidey: yes, the red flowers are Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja miniata, etc). Its a common but very 'showy' small (generally 8"-10" tall) red flower that grows in clumps and blooms briefly this time of the year. In mid-summer, a slightly different and larger (12"-15" tall) but typically less vivid sub-species will similarly bloom. I've tried to transplant them, and tried to grow them from seed in my yard, but to no avail because they're somewhat parasitic in the sense that their roots need to intermingle with the roots of other native desert plants --sagebrush, blackbrush, certain of the C-4 grasses such as Indian Ricegrass and Dropseed-- and pull nutrients from those.
Paul: you nailed it, geologically. Water --either by the dissolving action upon the CaCO2 that 'cements' individual grains of sand into rock, or by the freeze/thaw action that acts as a lever that reduces big rocks into smaller rocks with more surface to be acted upon by water-- is what reduces rock. Some day, this small bowl that holds water may eventually dissolve its way through the rock, and produce another arch. Odds are, though, that the existing arch ('Eye of the Whale Arch') may have long since collapsed by that time.
Apr 22, 2019 18:44:29 #
Apr 23, 2019 07:50:30 #
Cany143 wrote:
Arches Nat'l Park, late afternoon, clearing sky. Familiar places, and the first of this season's Indian Paintbrush.
beautiful scenes, cany!
Apr 23, 2019 08:43:52 #
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