Sonya put together a hiking trip to Zion.
Susan Holmes, our resident horticulturalist, often hung with me (thought she surely would have rather done the wild cliff hanging treks with Molly, Sonya and Patty). Susan had a thought that if we collected samples of high altitude mosses we could seed them into the cracks outside the gothic windows back at Tower and perhaps… they take there and make an urban alpine garden.
We struck off into the beautiful old riverbed on the first day. These inner canyons belong in the Louve!
The striations of red remind me of an ancient city in Jordan.
Susan taught me a cool way to identify a Douglas Fir from the cones.
The water must have rushed through here on a MISSION! Everything was curvy and smooth.
See the little mouse tails and feet sticking out from under little tables.
If you see those you know you have a Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglass Fir).
What wonderful friends. Susan Holmes Lipsky, Sonya Stoklosa, Molly Kingston and Patty Ryan trekking Zion.