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| White-Winged Doves |
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| Four Musketeers |
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| Checking out people on the mountain |
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| Allthorn (aka Crucifixion Thorn) |
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| Flower of the Allthorn |
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| Four hikers on the upper foothills trail |
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| Soaptree Yucca in bloom |
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| Soaptree Yucca flowers |
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| Soaptree Yucca against Tortugas Mountain |
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| Closeup of the blossoms |
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| Smoke from the Silver Fire has reached our area |
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| Snake with RD (Reptile Dysfunction)? |
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| A well-earned break |
5 comments:
Nice array of photos. That smoke is really bad here.
Sorry to hear about the fire. Hope it's under control soon. (Perhaps they could hit it with that snake... No, fires are ghastly.) Lovely photos of the flowers and the doves. I've never got close enough to a Yucca to know if they have a perfume.
Thanks, Jacqui. Yes, Yucca flowers have a nice, subtle scent. Members of the Apache tribe regularly ate Yucca blossoms, and I have tried them myself. Quite tasty. I imagine they'd be good in a salad.
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Really nicely captured images of the doves, and the closeup of the soaptree yucca flowers is especially good, too.
I assume the forest service will let the Silver Fire burn in the Aldo Leopold Wilderness (since the USFS doesn't try to contain wilderness area fires, do they?). How do you feel about that policy?
I hate to tell you this (because you're suffering through such a terrible drought), but we have had severe afternoon thunderstorms with drenching deluges here every single day for the last week-plus, and they're supposed to continue for a least four more days. It's really getting old. Everything is growing like a weed (which is to be expected), but it's also extremely humid and everything--everything--outside is sodden. Yuck! It's like your monsoon season, with predictable, daily, toad-strangling rain.
Scott: I'm not sure how the forest service will handle the fire in the wilderness area. If not too much is threatened I imagine they'll let it burn. But this fire is humongous, and I'll bet if it threatens too much wilderness they'll react.
It just doesn't seem fair the way the rain is distributed, does it? We sure could use some of that precip out our way. Perhaps you and Kail can bring some when you head to Denver.
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