RHH's photos with the keyword: juniper

We made a brief visit to Dead Horse Point State Park when leaving the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands and before heading for the Needles District where we would spend another few days.

Taken along the West Rim Trail near Maricopa Point in Grand Canyon National Park.

Photographed at Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah at sunrise.

Taken along the west rim trail between Mohave Point and Hopi Point in Grand Canyon National Park.

Taken along the west rim trail in Grand Canyon National Park between Mohave Point and the Abyss.

Taken as we hiked the west rim trail in Grand Canyon National Park. Next morning we had heavy snow that prevented our hiking down the canyon as planned.

Named for its distinctive bark, this Alligator Juniper was photographed along the Laguna Meadow trail in Big Bend National Park.

Also known as the Checkerbark Juniper, these cones were photographed in the Chisos Mountains of west Texas (Big Bend National Park). The tree is small and the bark cracked into small square plates resembling alligator skin. On another note, we are doing very well. We get out one morning a week for a few groceries and another day for some hiking, usually fairly close to home in areas that are still open. We'll be doing that later today at Fishtrap Lake. The confinement has given us time to work in the yard, do some projects around the house, some writing, some cooking and baking and I am even learning to play the kalimba. We have not lacked for things to do nor for walking space. Yesterday we baked some artisan sourdough bread, sourdough rosemary crackers and cooked some chicken korma. The day before we cleaned out the gutters on the roof and got all the pots ready for our patio garden (tomatoes, peppers, etc.). We've put some molding on stairposts, refinished a table, washed and detailed the car, put up the hummingbird feeders, written and edited twelve chapters of book I'm working on, cleaned up the lawn and flower beds, planted grass seed and more.

This is one of the cones of an Alligator Juniper, a small tree native to the American southwest and Mexico.

This photo shows the distinctive bark for which the Alligator Juniper is named. It is a small tree native to the American Southwest and Mexico.

This is the Alligator Juniper, a small tree from the desert southwest of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.

These Rocky Mountain Juniper berries were photographed along the Upper Terraces Loop at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.