Yucca And Desert Primrose In The Valley Of Fire
by Frank Wilson
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Yucca And Desert Primrose In The Valley Of Fire
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Frank Wilson
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Photograph - Photography
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While hiking in Nevada's Valley Of Fire, I came upon this Yucca plant that had raised it's flowering stalk into the sky in. Bone dry in the desert yet flowers bloom everywhere such as the small and delicate Desert Primrose growing in front of the Yucca Plant in the foreground.
The Valley of Fire is a very dry, sparsely vegetated desert area in Southern Nevada with spectacular red sandstone crags and rock piles that have eroded in a variety of interesting and unusual forms. Many rock faces are covered with desert varnish, a naturally occurring dark patina that forms on the surface of rocks in the desert. Native peoples who lived in the area created petroglyphs by pecking away the desert varnish to reveal the underlying light-colored rock. The scenery here is surreal and I had the feeling that I may have been hiking on another planet!
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May 8th, 2016
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