A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that my husband and I were leaving town to celebrate our (6th!) anniversary. Well, we got back not too long ago and I’m happy to report that my plants survived! I made a diy plant nanny, and it seems to have worked.
We visited Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. They both rank high on my list of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. This isn’t really container gardening related, but I thought I’d share some of the photos of plants and things…
The “cabins” we stayed in were part of ranch/resort that grew most (all?) of the vegetables and herbs they used in the meals served at their restaurant. I had an amazing salad that involved some of these greens. I put cabins in quotation marks because these weren’t rustic, no frills accommodations. Each cabin was beautifully decorated, and our cabin had a huge claw foot tub and a rain shower, among other things. All the cabins looked out onto a never ending pasture where buffalo were busy grazing, and then grazing some more.
I was really obsessed with these gaillardia seed heads. I must have taken 20 or 30 photos of them. There were wildflowers all over the ranch/resort.
Another patch of gaillardia had this bee busily foraging for pollen. Check out how loaded his back legs already are!
Not sure what kind of flowers these are? Do any of you know? Whatever it is, it was very pretty.
This chipmunk was so cute, I had to share it. He (or she?) was nibbling on some manzanita berries down the hill from Bryce Canyon amphitheater.
This is Bryce Canyon Amphitheater. The spires in the background are apparently called “hoodoos.” We saw friends of the berry eating chipmunk scampering up and down the hoodoos doing whatever it is chipmunks do.
And this is near the east entrance to Zion Canyon. The arch is imaginatively named “Great Arch” and is estimated to be 13 million years old.
