Four Mile Canyon

In the mountains, there you feel free.

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Sap dripping from a wound in a douglas fir.

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Downtown Boulder, at the west edge of the Pearl Street Mall.

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I think this is a morning glory? They grow in my driveway (and I’ve also seen them downtown).

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These purple flowers were growing among old bicycles and random crap in my driveway. (They’re doing it again this year too.)

I think they must be a member of the mustard family.

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This is an iris. My landlady planted them all around the property; they seem to grow well in Colorado.

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That’s all the photos from my trip to Crestone! Now I’ll post some photos that I took near my house in Boulder. I’m going to try to get through most of the June photos tonight.

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In Crestone, I camped by the water, and acquired a truly impressive number of mosquito bites.

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While driving home from Crestone, I encountered this fox on my road.

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No idea what cactus this is, but it’s beautifully geometric.

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Some kind of artemisia plant, I think.

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No idea what this is. If it was explained on the plantwalk, I have completely forgotten.

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This flower is called salsify. I think some parts of the plant are edible, but I’m not sure which ones.

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I did a bad job photographing this plant, but if I remember correctly, it had four-petalled flowers, and could therefore be identified as a member of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). This means that it’s edible, since all members of the mustard family are edible.

I can’t figure out what specifically this is, though.

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