CHAPTER 8 -SUMMATION--2023-2024...of the book DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE from the FOOTHILLS of MOUNT TIMPANOGOS

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INTRODUCTION

2023 AUTUMN in the FOOTHILLS of TIMPANOGOS

THE "SENTINELS" 

STAND GUARD ABOVE  GROVE CREEK CANYON

and MOUNT TIMPANOGOS 

If you've never noticed "THE SENTINELS" look at the panorama 

below of the Grove Canyon area and you'll see ALMOST 

DEAD CENTER  

what I zoomed in on with my long telephoto lens . 

 I'm not kidding, they are there.....you just have to develop an eye for the 

DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE.

Many of the VISIONS of NATURE are shown  
to you throughout my book as you've never seen them before.  
I'm below  preparing myself for the approximately 
366th   time over the 2023 and 2024 year Seasons
 to leave the Trailhead and hike the
 FOOTHILLS of TIMPANOGOS...... 

........ seeking to find, photograph and document more 

DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE

to share with all of my friends as well as to  

persist with this miraculous remedy that has given me new life. 

 A million thanks to the divine Creator who lovingly organized and

 set in motion all of these wonders. 

Thousands of others who love the great outdoors 
did the same these two seasons like we see below.

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

Each in their own way and with all kinds of wonderful motivations and unending blessings. 

I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying
I love you

In  Chapter 6 I began by featuring 

"THE MOST IMPORTANT PLANT IN THE WEST!"

SAGEBRUSH 

But in Chapter 2, the first to begin introducing the seemingly

 unending BEAUTIFUL DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE,   the first

 was a tiny fern-like plant with out-of-this-world leaves which

 wildflower continues today January 29, 2025 to give life to the deer,

 the rabbits, and interestingly to ME 

as I use her in my salads.I'm talking about 

#1 - REDSTEM FILAREE or STORKSBILL 

Its flower is only about 1/8th inch in diameter and due to the Drought

 of 2024 didn't blossom in January of 2025, but it did in  December

 of 2023 as we see below.  

 But plants are now growing again....not as good as the one we see below from December 2023........  

......but below  is where in December 2024 I began documenting the first Filaree plants to sprout after the drought, the picture below on February 6, 2025 just after finishing the book.  Sorry, not a very good photograph, but the aftermath of drought followed by winter isn't always a pretty picture.

They weren't very large plants and growing very slowly, but do you notice the ones eaten?   They were eaten by mule deer, and rabbits leaving them like we see below.  

FILAREE never fails to wow me, like the shot today, January 17,

 2025  of a small plant that after several real cold days has this

  beautiful plant become more spectactular  then ever.

So, the mule deer are now....  down to the foothills.... ....and we see above they are nibbling Filaree, which plant will help them through the winter, along with Sagebrush and others.

Notice how beautiful FILAREE makes the deer....and can have you sleek and shinny too!

And some I've quite easily transplanted, making sure to not cut the tap root, and doing well in my home.....when sunny I move them outside, then back inside for the cold nights. 

I've also got some sagebrush going, and will have a fun time in the Spring and Summer with 

THE BEST OF THE FOOTHILLS 

landscaping my tiny Cabin-A home.

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Now with 

CHAPTER  8

 Once it was the last in this online book...but then I realized 

I actually had neglected the sort of amazing 
dead part of the foothills.
...THE ROCKS &THE EARTH

and I have a  large file that is also colorful and spectacular that, along with my  long-time geology history,  I now have
that part of my legacy in the printed book....

.....in Chapter 9   to conclude the book!

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But,  now let's review the  

 DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE   

we have discovered during the 2023 and 2024 seasons with  

AWE at what the Creator has done for us. 

Looking to the heavens for guidance....

 in this chapter we will first review: 

1.  A PHOTO-ALBUM SUMMARY  of all of the 136 DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE  I have Identified  and enjoyed during 2023 and 2024.  

2.  Then a picture of each important UNIDENTIFIED plant  I will continue to work to learn about and add to the online book.

3.  Next a short tour getting a few glimpses of   DRY CANYON, the 3rd of the Foothills of Timpanogos, 

4.  Then  A PHOTO-ALBUM of all of the GRASSES of our area.

5.  Last a PHOTO-ALBUM OF  WHAT FOR ME ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VISONS of NATURE we have come to know over the two years. 

 6.  Last, an introduction to: 

Chapter 9: "The Foundation of All Divine Visions of Nature."   

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I hear babies cry
I watch them grow
They'll learn much more
Than I'll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Ooh, yes

Now the  beautiful 

DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE

we have seen during the 2023 and 2024 seasons and have been able to identify with information about their value for food, medicine, and which are poisonous.  Just names with little or no comment

 since we did that in each chapter where they were introduced.

Numbers 1-27 are all found in Chapter 2

1. 

REDSTEM FILAREE or STORK'S BILL

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

2. 

SHOWY  or HOOD'S  PHLOX  

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

3. 

PROSTRATE SPRING TIMPANOGOS PARSLEY

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

4.  

OLD MAN PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

5.  

YUCCA PLANT 

BLACK WIDOW SPIDER

poisonous

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

6.  

WESTERN YARROW

Flowers usually white, sometimes a beautiful pink, the one on the left with a rare white flower coming off of the pink's stalk.

This is the plant mentioned most in  TV's

DR. QUINN :  MEDICINE WOMAN, 

she was taught by Cloud Dancing, a Cheyenne,  about herbal/weeds

medicinal uses of the Divine Visions of Nature

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

7.  

FOOTHILL  DEATH CAMAS

poisonous

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

8. 

LEMONWEED - YELLOW PUCCOON or WESTERN STONESEED

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

9. 

 OREGON GRAPE-TALL 

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

10. 

OREGON GRAPE-DULL 

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

11.

POISON IVY

poisonous

GUATEMALA'S EQUIVALENTE TO POISON IVY

EXCEPT IT BECOMES A BIG TREE!

AMCHE from Guatemala

With the same oil on its leaves as Poison Ivy so produces

the same allergic reacion

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

12.

SMOOTH SUMAC

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

13. 

COMMON BURDOCK

Remember what this plant inspired?

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

14. 

GREATER BURDOCK

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

15.  

UTAH THISTLE

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

   16.     

 CANADIAN THISTLE    

Funnel Hobo Spider

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

17. 

MUSK or NODDING THISTLE

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

 18. 

RUSSIAN THISTLE

TUMBLEWEED

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

19. 

GAMBEL'S  or SCRUB OAK 

 

ROCK SQUIRREL

Stocking up for the long winter.

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

20. 

ROCKY MOUNTAIN MAPLE

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

21.

WESTERN COTTONWOOD TREE

Red tail hawk

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

22.

CURL LEAF MOHAGANY TREE

 

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

 23. 

PROSTRATE  VERBENA

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

24.

CHICORY

A  rare white CHICORY

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 

25.

PUSSY WILLOW 

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

26. 

WHITE DESERT  STAR-Aster

Numbers 1-27  are all found in Chapter 2

27. 

YELLOW STAR THISTLE

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

28.
COMMON BLADDER SENNA  

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

29. 

SIBERIAN PEA SHRUB

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

30.

SEGO LILY

UTAH STATE FLOWER

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

31.

SHOWY RUSHPINK

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

33. 

DWARF CAT'S EYES

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

34.

SPREADING FLEABANE

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

35.

HOUNDSTONGUE or GYPSY FLOWER

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

36.

WILD PARSNIP 

poisonous

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

37.

NINE LEAF PARSLEY

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

38.

CHOKE CHERRY 

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

39. 

SPREADING DOGBANE or INDIAN HEMP

poisonous

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

40. 

CREEPING SPEEDWELL 

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

 41. 

PRICKLY LETTUCE

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

42. 

PRICKLY LETTUCE FAMILY

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

43.

JIM HILL MUSTARD 

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

45. 

DANDELIONS 

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

46.

LONG LEAF PHLOX

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

47. 

STINGING NETTLE 

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

48.

ARROW-LEAFED BALSAMROOT

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

49.

BUR BUTTERCUP, CURVESEED, 

Also known as SAND, GRASS, or STICKY BUR

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

50.

GOATHEAD PUNCTURWEED

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

51.

 BINDWEED

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

52.

AMERICAN VETCH

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

53.

  PRINCE'S GOLDEN PLUME 

or DESERT  PLUME

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

54.

SCARLET GLOBEMALLOW

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

55.

UTAH SWEETVETCH

 

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

56.

CRAB APPLES

COTTONTAIL RABBIT

And hot on his trail.....

A BOBCAT

And, now with Winter upon us and the deer and elk coming down to the foothills....... 

.........and nipping off the buds of Smooth Sumac  as seen below...

In a whole patch of Smooth Sumac I only found one that wasn't nipped off...on the left. 

And today, February 1st, I'm finding more and more  Red Stem Filaree browsed too.  They are beating me to it....so no salads for Little Andy!

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So I wasn't surprised to all of a sudden in mid-January 2024 when hiking off trail pushing myself up higher on the slopes of Mount Mahogany to find signs of a big predator having dinned on venison.  

The footprint above on the right was clear for me but is bit unclear in my photo....over  4" wide so it wasn't  a bobcat, rather a COUGAR.   The sure give-away for identification is the large size of the scat or poop that is full of deer hair indicating it is a... 

COUGAR or MOUNTAIN LION... 

Another sure sign of identification is it being encased in a sort of mucus covering normal for big cats..... as a lubricant. 

A PERSONAL NOTE:

In my youth when 15...I first began feeling like a "mountain man" ....   I'll insert a clip from my personal history

 0-22 years called "My Checkered....autobiography"

THE MOUNTAIN MAN IN ME AWAKENED….TRAPPING A COUGAR!

To move a bit more in the direction of adventure I developed a friendship with Dick Johnson, the younger brother of our Scout Master. Soon we began making bicycle trips all over..... I especially enjoyed cycling with Dick out over the Berkley hills towards Walnut Creek where his family had a small property with a couple of horses. Dick taught me the basics about horses and riding....years later leading to a segment in my High Uinta books called:  The John Wayne Look-alike Adventure,  but my interest was more about exploring the hills, especially following a creek that came through the property.

There I began seeing animal tracks and recognized most of them along the creek as being from raccoons. At that time I was taking a correspondence course in Taxidermy and wanted to get some animals to practice on. So, for the next trip to the farm I took with me a trap that I had bought and set it along the creek, using tuna fish as bait.

With that we had to return the next day but I was wondering how I'd kill a raccoon if one was in my trap. As I approached the spot with a club in hand I immediately noticed the ground was all stirred up and found that the trap was gone, the 

 stake having been pulled up. It was easy to see what had happened by the cougar tracks in the area. I hated to lose my trap, but also grateful as the killing of a trapped cougar would have been more than I had bargained for.

But, having actually trapped a cougar had me all of a sudden feeling like a mountain man, as though I was a modern Jedediah Smith, my hero, from that day to today as I am dedicated to my High Uintas Project

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

57.

 INDIAN PAINTBRUSH

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

58.

DESERT PAINTBRUSH

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

59.

REDROOT BUCKWHEAT

Turkey vulture

Numbers 28-60 are all found in Chapter 3

60.

CLIFF ROSE

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

61. 

MOTH or WAVY MULLEIN

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

62. 

GOLDEN CLEMATIS

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

63. 

WOOLY MULLEIN or MINER'S CANDLE

TIGER SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

64.-66

At least 3 verieties

PENSTEMON FAMILY

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

67.

 EASTON  PENSTEMON or FIRECRACKER

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

68.

SHORTSTEM BUCKWHEAT

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Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

69.

SMALL or SALAD BURNET

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

70.

YELLOW MEADOW SALSIFY

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

71.

WESTERN RAGWEED

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

72.

WESTERN BLUE FLAX

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

73.

GOLDENROD

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

74.

WOODS' ROSE

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

75.

   HOLY CLOVER or SAINFOIN

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Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

76. MYRTLE SPURGE

Euphorbia myrsinites

Numbers 61-76 are all found in Chapter 4

77. 

SMOOTHSTEM BLAZING STAR

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

78.  

BIG BASIN SAGEBRUSH 

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

79. 

BONNEVILLE BIG SAGEBRUSH

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

80. 

RABBITBRUSH

The beautiful yellow one

To the left Bonneville Big Sagebrush

The tallest behind Basin Big Sagebrush

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

81. 

HOOKERS ONION

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

82.

BROOM SNAKEWEED

GOPHER SNAKE 

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

83.

GOLDEN DODDER PLANT 

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

84.

CURLEY DOCK

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

85.

PRAIRIE SAGE

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

86.

GRAY HORSEBRUSH

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Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

87.

SWEET CLOVER

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

88.

SPIDER MILKWEED

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

89.

WESTERN SAND MILKWEED

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

90. 

SHOWY MILKWEED

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

91.

COMMON MILKWEED

In 2025 I'll get the full story on this plant and insert here. 

Wolf spider

They don't spin a web, but hunt for their dinner the 

old fashioined way!

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

92.

COMMON SUNFLOWER

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

93.

DWARF SUNFLOWER

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

94.

PERRENIAL or BUSH SWEET PEA

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

 95. 
DOUGLAS DUSTY MAIDEN
or 
FALSE YARROW

 DESERT TARANTULA

semi-poisonous

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

96.

CURLYCUP GUMWEED

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

97.

ALFALFA

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

98.

 WHITE WOODLAND STAR ASTER

GRAY HAIRSTREAK BUTTERFLY

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

99.

HAIRY GOLDEN ASTER

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

100. - 105.   LEAFY ASTER

At least 8 types 

 

 

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6

106. 

PROSTRATE KNOTWEED

Numbers 78-107 are all found in Chapter 6 

107. 

CREEPING or PROSTRATE SPURGE

Numbers 108-136 are all found in Chapter 7

108.

ANTELOPE BITTERBRUSH

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Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

109.

COMMON MALLOW

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Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

110.

SHEPHERD'S PURSE

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

111.

BLUE MUSTARD

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

112.

GRAPE HAYACINTH

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

113. 

DWARF CANADIAN HORSEWEED

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

114.

YELLOW ALYSSUM or PALE MADWORT

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

115.

WHITE HOREHOUND

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

116.

DESERT MADWORT

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

117.

SMITH'S PEPPERWORT

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

118.

HOARY CRESS or WHITETOP

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

119.

GERMAN MADWORT

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

120.

GOLDEN CURRANT

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

121.

CORN GROMWELL

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

122.

TALL ANNUAL WILLOW HERB

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

123.

STARRY FALSE LILY OF THE VALLEY

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

124.

UPLAND LARKSPUR

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

125.

BABY BLUE EYES

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

126.

DIAMON CLARKIA

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

127.

CAT'S EAR

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

128.

ALPINE WALLFLOWER

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

129.

ROUNDLEAF SNOWBERRY

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

130.

FRAGRANT SUMAC - THREE LEAF SUMAC

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

131.

RED ELDERBERRY

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

132.

COMMON BEDSTRAW or STICKY WILLY

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

133.

WILD LETTUCE

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

134.

WHITE HEATH ASTER

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

135.

MESA TANSYASTER

Numbers 108-136  are all found in Chapter 7

136.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN JUNIPER

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NOW A SECTION ESPECIALLY 

FOR

AS YET 40 UNIDENTIFED PLANTS

and one tiny 

Dwarf's home! 

They are in different stages of growth , but I somehow neglected

  following up on them to see them as mature plants with a flower that would have made identification more possible. I will do that if able to do in 2025 as I have done in the past two years. 

For 2025 I will do a couple of pages printing medium sized photographs of each, listing the date when each photo was taken, and noting for those I recall where they were.....and have the printout  with me as a guide to see what I can learn to add to this online book.

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NOW.....

.......GRASSES of the FOOTHILLS

At this time I will make no effort to identify each of the many kinds

 of grasses I have photographed, but likely will eventually do that and  add names and information to make this work as complete as possible.......while also doing that to keep me alive and useful as long as possible..

Many of the grasses were found in the area seen below when the  beginning of the growing season began.....

June 10th

....below I'll add one of the same area in mid-season, and then one from the beginning of winter. 

August 10th, 2024

November 21st

Many grasses were in this area where I photoshoped  

being watched by a curious bobcat....

.....tracks of which I have since seen many times as shown below including the partial track of a young one.

I'm still hoping soon to find tracks of a Cougar 

that will be twice as wide as a Bobcat. 

This will most likely happen in late winter, or early spring.  

In the fringes of this area I frequently caught fleeting glimpses of QUAIL and finally got a got photo or two, like......

A MATING PAIR of QUAIL

......the MALE of course being the handsomer of the two!  That's

 nature's way of providing for the safety of mothers....dull and

 unattrative! 

It's fascinating to note that among us 

Human Visions of Nature, 

the opposite is true....us guys sort of dull and boring, 

and the women

DIVINE & BEAUTIFUL VISIONS of CREATION!

Now with many kinds of 

GRASSES....

A tiny COTTONTAIL RABBIT feeding on the grass seeds 

and green folage..

An adult COTTONTAIL RABBIT in the same area.

A couple getting to know each other. 

A great place to see the PRAYING MANTIS, his color matching what he (or she) is eating.

Later in the season with the grasses drying up, another 

PRAYING MANTIS 

a bit frustrated trying to camoflaged himself....he's likely a she. 

To match the beautiful backgroundshe would need 

an incredible makeup kit!

This is a KATYDID,  that on 

hatching from an egg is a nymph looking a lot like the adult, but without wings.  Eventually they molt casting off their exoskeletons getting wings as they become adults. They are basically harmless.

The growing season is now ending.

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Now we move south past Battle Creek Canyon and make 

a quick visit at the end of the season to 

DRY CANYON.

One gets to it driving north from Orem on Hwy. 89  turning east on 2000 North (in Orem) which soon becomes 200 South in Lindon.  Continue towards the mountain and you arrive at....

At the entrance, and in the parking lot there are Forest Service 

signs and maps

It is plain to see that I did this quite late in the season 

on November 13th.

This obviously will be on my schedule for the 2024 season, dividing

 myself between Grove Canyon, Battle Creek Canyon, and here as I

 can image it being a beautiful canyon to hike in when the vegetation

 is springing to life.

A ROCK SQUIRREL waiting for the Winter hibernation period. 

It was late in the day so I didn't go very far, but up the canyon 

is visible the south end of Mount Timpanogos. 

We are now coming back to the parking lot with Utah Valley 

and Lake spread out before us as the sun is setting.

   

Sorry I didn't get back here, nor to Battle Creek Canyon as my 2024 kept me more than busy with my mini-hikes getting shorter, but taking longer than in the past.... just in the Grove Creek area.  

Maybe in 2025 in my 90th year?

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"GREATEST DISCOVERY" 

introduced last year.....wasn't that at all! 

It wasn't  the SIBERIAN PEA SHRUB  rather is 

#28 - Common bladder senna

But the one I introduced from the Springville foothills of the 

Wasatch, seen below, is the

#29 - Siberian Pea Shrub. 

SIBERIAN PEA SHRUB FLOWER 

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TOTALS DOCUMENTED

136 IDENTIFIED PLANTS/FLOWERS/SHRUBS/TREES/etc....

...to be built on in 2025

40 UNIDENTIFIED PICTURED IN THIS CHAPTER ...

....a work in progress

18 GRASSES yet UNIDENTIFIED but will be done oneday.

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For me:

I stated last year that the....

....MOST BEAUTIFUL DIVINE VISION

of NATURE 

and  

GIFT FROM  OUR LOVING CREATOR

was:

  #61 - HOLY CLOVER or SAINFOIN

I was  blessed with discovering many more .....one of which you might choose as the winner..

...the truth is THEY ARE ALL WINNERS!

When I have a little time.....after finishing the book, I'll insert below  a WINNING SELECTION, but in closing I'll insert two you have never seen before.....that for me are impressive!

Can you guess their identity?
They are of the same small plant....

....#1- Redstem Filaree

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What a wonderful world
Ooh, yes

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PREFACE TO CHAPTER 9

We are now in the winter season when seemingly much of the

 life of the foothills either dies or goes into hibernation, leaving us

 under the gaze of what  really seems  dead.....created millions of

 years ago.

THERE IS A LIVELY PAST CRUCIAL TO ALL OF OUR 

DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE.

To say the least a very up-side-down, jumbled 

puzzle of the past.....

....whose story needs to be told and at least appreciated with  a few glimpses to enliven our curiosity and widen our horizons.

  

 THE SENTINELS pictured  at the 

beginning of this chapter and again below in winter.....

 

....are   gawking and begging me to add a 

Chapter 9

which I have now done, adding to this  book...

..the GEOLOGY, or simply 

the ROCKS and what grows on them 

that had a life  we have to learn about and appreciate because we

 humans, and all the DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE were born and evolved from those rocks, minerals, and dust of the earth. 

So, there is still a crucial and important story to tell for without them

 and their life giving and building nutrients none of us would be here.

 So read on in  Chapter 9 that shows us the foundation of all the 

 amazing DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE  that will  

inspire us during 2025 and on into the future.

So, I have finished  chapter 9 to help us understand some and...

... appreciate more the

CREATION of all the DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE...

...the Lord crowning HIS GLORIOUS WORK  with his best....

....human beings...US...with limitless potential for learning, for growth, improvement, for progress, for doing

 GOOD....some of us believing that we humans are the offspring of God!

It is a big subject and actually quite a puzzle, but we will  

at least come to appreciate more the: CREATION as

recorded in ageless & beautiful rocks and minerals that make up

 MOUNT TIMPANOGOS and her FOOTHILLS 

as well as all the divine creations of the Lord.

So, continue to 

CHAPTER 9 

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