Images include an optional hand-crafted barn wood frame for a 12×18 canvas print.
Little City of Rocks, about 10 miles north of Gooding, is often confused with City of Rocks National Reserve on the Southern border of Idaho, but the rock formations are quite different and have beauty of their own. In many areas the rock columns stand in rows, looking like tall city buildings. Those seen in this image form a massive group on the hilltop, looking as though they are protecting something important at the top. I hiked up the hill to touch one of the columns, and it is much steeper and more massive than it appears from a distance. In the early spring as the snow melts, there is quite a lot of water flowing down the creek bed seen behind the flowers in this image, but by May it is usually dry. However, the moisture gave rise to thousands of Arrow leaf Balsamroot flowers, sometimes lining the creek bed in enormous groups. The flowers made this visit a very pleasant one, since the previous time I had come out to hike, everything was long since dead and dried up in the summer heat. I was honored that this photo was selected to be the homepage photo on the Facebook group “Idaho through the lens”, introducing a photo contest with a wildflowers theme.
Images include an optional hand-crafted barn wood frame for a 12×18 canvas print.
Little City of Rocks, about 10 miles north of Gooding, is often confused with City of Rocks National Reserve on the Southern border of Idaho, but the rock formations are quite different and have beauty of their own. In many areas the rock columns stand in rows, looking like tall city buildings. Those seen in this image form a massive group on the hilltop, looking as though they are protecting something important at the top. I hiked up the hill to touch one of the columns, and it is much steeper and more massive than it appears from a distance. In the early spring as the snow melts, there is quite a lot of water flowing down the creek bed seen behind the flowers in this image, but by May it is usually dry. However, the moisture gave rise to thousands of Arrow leaf Balsamroot flowers, sometimes lining the creek bed in enormous groups. The flowers made this visit a very pleasant one, since the previous time I had come out to hike, everything was long since dead and dried up in the summer heat. I was honored that this photo was selected to be the homepage photo on the Facebook group “Idaho through the lens”, introducing a photo contest with a wildflowers theme.
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