June | 2013 | Scott's Place...Images and Words

fishing…an attempt, anyway……

June 27, 2013 | Categories: Photos - Outdoors | Tags: alpine lake, American Fork Canyon, Aspen, childhood, family, fishing, photography, Silver Lake Flat, Utah, Utah nature, Utah outdoors, Utah photography | 22 Comments

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Lake Lillian – another rendition

June 26, 2013 | Categories: Photos - Outdoors | Tags: alpine lake, Big Cottonwood Canyon, hiking, Lake Lillian, Mill B South, mountain lake, photography, Picasa, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City hiking, Salt Lake City nature, Sundial Peak, Utah, Utah hiking, Utah nature, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch National Forest | 12 Comments

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a presence

June 25, 2013 | Categories: Photos - Outdoors | Tags: aloneness, Big Cottonwood Canyon Utah, hiker, hiking, hiking alone, Mineral Fork, Mineral Fork Utah, nature, outdoors, photography, quiet, Regulator Johnson Mine, Salt Lake City hiking, snow patches on mountain, snowy trail in mountains, solitary hiker in mountains, solitude, spring hiking | 16 Comments

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it was Spring….

June 21, 2013 | Categories: Photos - Outdoors | Tags: Millcreek Canyon, photography, Salt Lake City Utah, snow-capped mountains, spring wildflowers, Utah, Utah photography, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch National Forest, Wildflowers | 36 Comments

Spring run-off in the Wasatch

This particular location is found just down from the drainage at the lower and west end of Lake Lillian, one of the Sister Lakes in Big Cottonwood Canyon, just south and east of Salt Lake City, Utah.

June 19, 2013 | Categories: Photos - Outdoors | Tags: alpine stream, Big Cottonwood Canyon, hiking, Lake Lillian, Mill B South, photography, Salt Lake City hiking, Salt Lake City nature, Sister Lakes, snow-melt, Twin Peaks Wilderness area, Utah hiking, Utah nature, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch National Forest | 42 Comments

The “winter gate” is still closed in Millcreek Canyon…allowing pedestrian and bicycle traffic clear passage to the end of the road without the interference of motor vehicles, excepting the occasional motorist who actually lives or stays at one of the cabins further into the greenwood. The road is closed from the first of November until the first of July…or I could say that it’s only open from the first of July to the first of November…at any rate, here’s another glimpse into the marvelousness of full Spring in Millcreek Canyon…the snow is gone and the Green has returned…and it’s a beautiful place to take a walk….. If you’d like another look at the green explosion that is MillCreek Canyon in season, you can visit my post from last July for another saturated view of the place, Millcreek Canyon in Green.

June 13, 2013 | Categories: Photos - Outdoors | Tags: canopy of trees, hiking, Millcreek Canyon, nature, outdoors, photography, Salt Lake City hiking, Salt Lake City nature, Salt Lake City Utah, springtime, Utah photography, walking, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch National Forest | 34 Comments

Dwarf Waterleaf in Millcreek Canyon

As I was going through my back-log of blog posts this morning, I came across John M. Smith’s post, Bluebells and Beech, and remembered that I was going to do a similar post on some Utah wildflowers that I had noticed after viewing Andy Hooker’s post, Bluebells 2013.

My older son and I were on the way to one of our Sunday morning hiking destinations, walking the Pipeline Trail in Millcreek Canyon, just east of Salt Lake City proper. While I have walked this trail more than a dozen times over the past few years, I have never noticed the profusion of a single type of wildflower like I did on this particular morning….and it was too good to resist…taking a break in the early part of the hike to kneel in the wild grass and flowers for a few minutes to take a few (?) pictures…..

USWildflowers.com identifies these little beauties as being Dwarf Waterleaf, Bullhead Waterleaf…or Cat’s Breeches…with the scientific name of Hydrophyllum capitatum, for those of you interested in such things. I’m sorry I can’t name the trees…but here you are anyway with the blanket of spring wildflowers on a beautiful Spring morning….as my son and I were heading to our own version of Sunday services……