Recent monsoons have passed through Grand Canyon National Park the last 5 weeks, bringing much-needed rain and angry skies. Click on image for a larger view.
Grand Canyon Drama
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Undamaged Flora From Recent Kaibab National Forest Visit.
Even though Kaibab NF sustained heavy damage from last years fires, there still is some life.
Lupine Wildflower- Now Appearing Daily
This wildflower is known for its blue color but I like the leaves of the plant. They show an abstract form that changes shape and color throughout the summer. The word lupine means flower as a noun and “like a wolf” as an adjective.
Dragon Bravo Fire Revisited
While Utah, Colorado and Arizona are being terrorized with many forest and brush fires this summer, I revisited the remains of the Dragon Bravo Fire at Kaibab National Forest in Arizona. The Aspens were fire damaged but still stood amongst the equally damaged Ponderosa Pines.
Marble Cayon
It precedes the Grand Canyon in Northern Arizona and is also magnificent.
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Best Images From 2025
I didn’t get out as much as previous years but did capture some good ones, especially from autumn.
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Coyote Buttes- A Whimsical Product Of The Forces Of Nature.
Coyote Buttes, on the Arizona/Utah border, is a landscape that defies description. Freud would have trouble developing a diagnosis for this patient.
One look at it will put a smile on your face along with a frown. It’s situated at The Vermillion Cliffs National Monument and is well protected. At North Coyote Buttes, a trip to The Wave is only accessible for 20 daily fortunates who were victorious in the dreaded lottery put on by The Bureau of Land Management.
It’s a riot of abstractness, details, hues, textures, patterns and dizzying sandstone shapes. The Navajo Sandstone calcified dunes evolved into its current look due to erosion from winds and rains.
This is a repost from 2014..
At South Coyote Buttes, the unusual is the usual at this landscape. Grotesque shapes of rock cast by millions of years of weathering have produced a carnival of oddities that Barnum & Bailey would be proud of. I half expected a woman with a beard to come walking around the corner.
It seems as if someone put one of those curvy carnival mirrors out there to give Coyote Buttes it’s distorted look. But it is real. I think.
It’s highly believable that it took millions of years for the gods to create Coyote Buttes.
You just don’t put this together in a week.
Michael Andrew Just
Dawn2Dawn Photography
Fall Colors Without Leaves?
I caught the remnants of the fall colors at Kaibab National Forest in Northern Arizona. The Aspens were pretty much leafless as a recent storm with lots of rain and high winds caused this.
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