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Saturday, April 25, 2009 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

Trailing Four O'clock, South Monticello Area, Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM, April 25, 2009
Trailing Four O'clock, South Monticello Area, Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM, April 25, 2009

Trailing Four O'clock

From Wikipedia: Allionia, commonly known as windmills or trailing four o'clock, is a genus of two species widespread in the western hemisphere. They are unusual in their blooms, which actually consist of three separate flowers appearing to be a single flower.

Night camp

Site 32, South Monticello Point - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

Hobnobbing with Brigham Young

The day following my arrival in the flourishing City of the Saints, as they called it then and still call it, I very unexpectedly met and formed the acquaintance of Brigham Young. I was riding along at the head of my flock of sheep when a stoutly built, florid faced genteel-looking man, whose hair was just turning gray, walked down to the street from one of the most pretentious residences in the place and inquired whose sheep I had charge of.

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