Purty Zion Nat'l Park Pics

Minus any identifying-family shots [so sorry, but those don't happen here], here are some of our favorite non-family-featured pics from our camping trip this past weekend with the angel boy-O!

I don't know what these are called [UPDATE: Indian Paintbrush, but it looks slightly different from the kind I've seen in Northern Utah & Southern Idaho - Thanks, Don!], but they and several other kids of wild flowers were everywhere!!!

A gnarly tree! (duh!)

Another gnarly tree, nearing the top of Watchman trail...

The end of the 'Temple of Sinawava' trail
After hopping around the mid-river rocks, I sat n' watched the angel boy-O practicing how to skip rocks on water...
More from the Temple of Sinawava trail...
How I wish I had had something to indicate the scale of this!?!
Beneath the Weeping Rock

Beneath the falls found at the Lower Emerald Pools
From above the Lower Emerald Pools

Some balanced rock art [UPDATE! This lil' pile of rocks is called a CAIRN - Thanks again, Don!] we found along the trail to the Upper Emerald Pools, along with a spectacular view of the Zion canyon...

The lil' waterfall above the upper Emerald Pools...

And down below... (the boy-O for scale)

The view from the Upper Emerald Pools trail
View from the bridge at Zion Lodge

And this moment at the Virgin River was amazing - -

There were about 10 mule deer and the boy-O was absolutely mesmerized.

The gargantuan tree at Zion Lodge (again, the boy-O for scale)!

Watchman Campground:
Along the line of tents seen here, just right of center, the light green one with the purple bottom was us.