Vertical orientation. Framed in a 16×24 barn wood frame with a Danish oil finish.
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 groups 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 Arrow leaf Balsamroot flowers, lining the creek bed. 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 especially pleased with how the sun shown through openings in the rocks on the hill, lighting strips of the hillside.
Vertical orientation. Framed in a 16×24 barn wood frame with a Danish oil finish.
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 groups 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 Arrow leaf Balsamroot flowers, lining the creek bed. 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 especially pleased with how the sun shown through openings in the rocks on the hill, lighting strips of the hillside.
