May 19, 2017: Cottonwood Canyon State Park & Seven-Mile Hill (Oregon)

Cottonwood Canyon was pretty boring... except for the cliff swallows. The birds were cool.

On my way home from CCSP, I stopped at Seven-Mile Hill near The Dalles for a little extra wildflower fix.

Cottonwood Canyon State Park

bold jumping spider
cliff swallows
cliff swallow nests
the trail
many-flower thelypody
cliffs
cutworm moth on changeable phacelia
Leiberg's stonecrop
fern-leaf desert parsley, gone to seed
Indra swallowtail butterfly (in my footprint)
sagebrush & cliffs
balsamroot & sagebrush
turpentine spring parsley
thelypody & the moon
sagebrush & white-top
pear-hip rose (Woods' rose)
Jungermann's monkeyflower
cliff swallows
John Day River
cliffs
fiddleneck
winged dock (veiny dock)
John Day River
almost-dry waterfall
Jungermann's monkeyflower
cut-leaf thelypody
teeny-tiny miner's lettuce
larkspur
round-leaf alumroot
larkspur
sagebrush & cliffs
naked broomrape
bi-colored cluster lilies
western poison-ivy
hanging valley
grand collomia
yellow monkeyflower
tadpoles
yellow monkeyflower
side canyon
waterfall & side canyon
monkeyflower & cattails
water speedwell
Oregon sunshine
silverpuffs
lupines
lupines
mostly-dry waterfall
long-leaf phlox
spurred lupines
red-stem miner's lettuce
bugloss fiddleneck

Wasco-Heppner Highway

terraced hills
wind turbines
wind turbines

Seven-Mile Hill

bi-colored cluster lilies
fork-tooth ookow
Hood River milk-vetch seed pods
lemon-scented madia
common vetch
deltoid balsamroot, fading
Suksdorf's desert parsley
American vetch
Oregon sunshine
hairy vetch
prairie star flowers and seed-pods
western buttercup seeds
Seven-Mile Hill
heart-leaf buckwheat
winter vetch (woolly vetch)

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