Scenes from a walk in the rain at Walnut Canyon National Monument. In Coconino County, Arizona. Please click any photo in the set for enlarged views.
Top: Ponderosa pines in the mist on the canyon rim.
Center: Pygmy nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea) on two-needle piñon pine (Pinus edulis).
Bottom: The resinous sap of two-needle piñon pine is wonderfully fragrant – and disastrously sticky.
Scenes from a walk in the rain at Walnut Canyon National Monument. In Coconino County, Arizona. Please click any photo in the set for enlarged views.
Top: Ponderosa pines in the mist on the canyon rim.
Center: Pygmy nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea) on two-needle piñon pine (Pinus edulis).
Bottom: The resinous sap of two-needle piñon pine is wonderfully fragrant – and disastrously sticky.
Puff.
Puffball mushroom (probably Lycoperdon perlatum, the most common pufffball in North America). Found growing in dense pine straw duff in ponderosa forest along the Arizona Trail, in Coconino County, Arizona.
Puff.
Puffball mushroom (probably Lycoperdon perlatum, the most common pufffball in North America). Found growing in dense pine straw duff in ponderosa forest along the Arizona Trail, in Coconino County, Arizona.
Trail at sunrise.
At Kendrick Park, Coconino National Forest, Arizona.
Trail at sunrise.
At Kendrick Park, Coconino National Forest, Arizona.
The rusting remains of a farm or logging truck, at Kendrick Park, Coconino National Forest, Arizona.
The rusting remains of a farm or logging truck, at Kendrick Park, Coconino National Forest, Arizona.
Kendrick Park Flora
Lichen, possibly Hypotrachyna sp.
Lupine’s last stand. We have three similar lupine species in Northern Arizona, with overlapping distributions. I think this is Lupinus palmeri, the bluebonnet lupine.
Unidentified grass seedhead, wet with dew.
Unidentified moss on volcanic rock.
Common mullein, Verbascum thapsus.
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Kendrick Park Flora
Lichen, possibly Hypotrachyna sp.
Lupine’s last stand. We have three similar lupine species in Northern Arizona, with overlapping distributions. I think this is Lupinus palmeri, the bluebonnet lupine.
Unidentified grass seedhead, wet with dew.
Unidentified moss on volcanic rock.
Common mullein, Verbascum thapsus.
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Dithyramb 