Landscape Arch

Landscape Arch (Arches NP) - Utah  2016

After viewing both iconic arches, Mike felt that their names should possibly be reversed. This arch seems more delicate than Delicate Arch, and Delicate Arch seems somehow more landscape-y.

Monday Bunny Blogging

Rabbit (Arches NP) - Utah  2016

Very well hidden! Taken during Mike's hike to Delicate Arch, in Arches National Park.

Delicate Arch

Delicate Arch (Arches NP) - Utah  2016

A weird, lovely, fantastic object out of nature, like Delicate Arch, has the curious ability to remind us — like rock and sunlight and wind and wilderness — that out there is a different world, older and greater and deeper by far than ours, a world which surrounds and sustains the little world of men as sea and sky sustain a ship.  The shock of the real.  For a little while we are again able to see, as a child sees, a world of marvels.  For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.

- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

Delicate Arch Hike

Road (Arches NP) - Utah  2016

Desert Plants (Arches NP) - Utah  2016

Hiking up to Delicate Arch on an overcast late winter day. Nice light.

Junipers (Arches National Park)

Juniper (Arches NP) - Utah  2016

Juniper, Rock Wall (Arches NP) - Utah  2016

Most of the attention in this part of the country is paid to the rock formations and the impressive views there. However, Mike quite enjoyed the desert trees and plants to be found in Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.

Arches National Park

Landmarks (Arches NP) - Utah  2016

Toyota (Arches NP) - Utah  2016

Made famous by Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitaire, " the book detailing his experiences as a park ranger there.

Although it initially garnered little attention, it would eventually be recognized as an iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing, and brought Abbey critical acclaim and popularity as a writer of environmental, political, and philosophical issues.

- Wikipedia

Two iPhone photos.