For the 2nd year in a row, Kangaroo the Dog and I fled Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Day celebration for the fantastic wildflower basins of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. Hitting peak wildflower season perfectly, I was rewarded with the most dramatic wildflower display I have ever seen. I spent the first day exploring Ice…
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Colorado’s Ice Lake Basin Wildflower Display
Ice Lake Basin and neighboring Island Lake is one of the most incredible places I’ve visited in the United States. This past weekend I hiked up to the basin for the third time in three years hitting it at darned near peak wildflower season. For the second year in a row I found myself in…
My Wasatch Wildflower Project: The Salt Lake City Foothills
The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words – without locks, open on my shelves. ~Terry Tempest Williams My grandmother pressed wildflowers under stacks of books. I tried to emulate her in anyway I could and I…