May 25, 2019 Coal Mine Canyon, Arizona

The Navajo call this Black Canyon, the Hopi call it Blue Canyon and the white man calls it Coal Mine Canyon. Mid 70's, sunny and very little wind. There is also question of whether we need to go with a native american guide- many places on the reservation you need to. No one in town seems to know. John found on the internet that we don't need a guide to walk along the rim, but do to go into the canyon. We walked along the rim.

It is a very colorful canyon with lots of cool hoodoos. 

Move views and hoodoos. 

Yellow princes plume in front of the Coal Mine canyon. Hoodoos.

Blooming yucca in front of the hoodoos in Coal Mine Canyon.  View from our lunch spot on the rim of Coal Mine Canyon.

Weird looking goose neck hoodoo. Cool hoodoo.  

   

John walking in flowers with the San Francisco peaks in the background. Hoodoos in Coal Mine Canyon. 

Delphiniums on the rim of Coal Mine Canyon. Yellow desert dandelions on the rim of Coal Mine Canyon. 

 Yucca on the rim of Coal Mine Canyon.  Yellow desert dandelions and mormon tea on the rim of Coal Mine Canyon. 

Field of desert dandelions.  Hopi sheep in front of a windmill. Desert dandelion,

 Three shots of delphiniums, desert gems, prickly pear cactus blooms and a gopher snake in the trail.