"The desert paintbrush is the queen of slickrotica. You can tell by its fiery scarlet and early bloom, as if it wants these curvaceous sweeps of sandstone to itself . . . Red is common among early bloomers, as if nature wished to jump-start spring, to skip the formalities and lunge into an unfeigned passion that dissolves reason or reluctance."
Ellen Meloy
Photo: Desert paintbrush glows in last light, Arches National Park, UT, April 21, 2012
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