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Desert Dawn

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Moth Penstemon*** in the Coyote Buttes.   The desert winds drag the grasstips across the sand.  Animals leave their tracks nightly and the winds obliterate them during the day.  Paria Canyon--Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area, Northern Arizona, taken a few minutes after dawn June 28, 1997 after an hour hike over sand and slickrock in the light of the moon and thirty more minutes walking in twilight.
Mamiya C220, 55mm twin lens, Fuji Velvia
Bogen 3021 tripod, Arca Swiss ballhead

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*** Penstemon ambiguus is the real name--I did NOT make this name up.  Closer inspection shows that each bilaterally symmetrical flower has an upper lip of two lobes and a lower lip of three lobes.  NOT like the radially symmetrical Phlox longifolia as one BLM ranger believes.  Peterson's guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers bears this out, unequivocally.
©1998 Jeffrey Wong
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