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Gallery: Fern Lake Trail – September 6, 2009, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Viguiera is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. A plant in this genus may be known as a goldeneye. These are herbs to bushy shrubs and they bear yellow or orange daisylike flowers. There are about 150 species native to the New World
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Phantom Canyon Road, Gold Belt National Scenic Byway, Colorado, August 26, 2004
Cleome serrulata (Rocky Mountain Beeweed, Rocky Mountain Beeplant, Bee Spiderflower, stinking clover, Navajo spinach) is a species of Cleome, native to western North America from southern British Columbia, east to Minnesota and Illinois, and south to New Mexico and northernmost California. It is also naturalized further east in North America. (Wikipedia)
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Windows Area, Arches National Park, Utah – September 24, 2007
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Gallery: Arches National Park
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Thistle blossom and yellowjacket, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, September 2, 2009
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Gallery: Fall River and Trail Ridge – September 2, 2009
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Dane County Farmer’s Market on the Square
September 20, 2008
On the streets around the Wisconsin Capitol Building.
Gallery: Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square – Madison, Wisconsin,
September 13 and 20, 2008,
on the streets around the state capitol building
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Lake Bailey, Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas, July 26, 2008
Information: Petit Jean State Park and Petit Jean Mountain
Gallery: Petit Jean State Park and Petit Jean Mountain
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We had parked near the Alluvial Fan parking lot and I had walked across Fall River Road to get a different angle on the scenery for photos. This image is one of a number of thistle plants in bloom.
Along lower Fall River Road, Rocky Mountains National Park, September 2, 2009
Gallery: Fall River and Trail Ridge – September 2, 2009
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Fern Lake Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park.
Gallery: Fern Lake Trail – September 5, 2009
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Autumn Leaf, Seven Hollows Trail, Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas.
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Mesa Verde’s Balcony House is a very memorable — and challenging — place to visit. It certainly isn’t for those who have a fear of heights or a problem with tight spaces. Those with health problems that prevent strenuous activity should not attempt this tour.
From the park website: The Balcony House tour requires visitors to descend a 100 foot staircase into the canyon; climb a 32 foot ladder; crawl through a 12 foot, 18 inches wide tunnel; and clamber up an additional 60 feet on ladders and stone steps.
The climb out:
Rain in Montezuma Valley:
Tansy Aster against a ruin wall:
Mesa Verde National Park, September 14, 2009
We had tickets for a 10 AM ranger guided tour of Balcony House. We had been to this ruin at least two other times before, the first in 1986, when we were in our mid-thirties.
To get into the ruin requires a bit of a climb, shown in the two views below and the one on the right, which exaggerates the steepness of the ladder because I had to rotate the image a little to get it all in.
Waiting to go through the small passage:
A hungry coyote zeros in on food — found on road:
Rabbitbrush with Sleeping Ute Mountain in the background:
image and information from September 14, 2009
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