9-03-16

Colorado. Just upstream from its confluence with the Dolores. Some of the supports for the Hanging Flume (https://www.test.ipernity.com/doc/289859/album/821186) are visible on the cliff at the left. The shrub in the foreground with small yellow blossoms is (a-CHOO!) rabbitbrush.

Colorado, south of Paradox Valley. Looking upstream (south). The petroglyphs we were trying to reach are supposed to be below those cliffs in the distance, but we were out of time--and the old Jeep trail did not prove to be practical for bicycles! In fact, it's pretty much washed out thru here, even tho Google still shows it as a "road." The partly bare shrubs along the river, to the left, are tamarisk ( Tamarix spp.), which are showing the effects of the tamarisk beetle, imported to control them!