The Colorado River is the lifeblood of the Southwest, and while out in Utah a while back, I was a little surprised to see sunflowers growing on its banks. This was along a route that is part of the Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway. Apparently, long extinct animals once roamed this area, and now it is full of interesting rock formations, formed over eons perhaps, and carved from ice, heat, and erosion.
Kansas calls itself "The Sunflower State", but it evidentally doesn't have a monopoly on those blooms. Eastern Colorado has a lot of sunflowers, and I remember seeing beautiful fields of them there. The ones I saw in Utah were few and far between, but perhaps their scarcity there added something to the experience of seeing a few here and there.
In Colorado and Utah, we would occasionally catch sight of rafters enjoying the river. In some places, there were also trails with bicyclists, and roads and rails were also represented. I often wish to go back out west, but to even see these places once can form indelible memories.
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