Tumbleweeds

You get lucky sometimes...I happened upon this event which only lasted a few minutes and pulled out my camera to record it. It seemed that a weather front was passing through and strong winds were associated with it, blowing UP the canyon. This field had not been worked or plowed recently and was overgrown with a large amount of tumbleweeds. It's actually quite a chore for a farmer to remove them before plowing and planting a field. Now the wind has taken care of most of that job.

The tumbleweeds appear to be alive, like a herd of African wildebeest, or maybe even lemmings. Watch the bare branches of the trees in the background to get a sense of the strength of the wind.

Even though tumbleweeds are so very iconic to the American Southwest, they aren't even native to this continent. Wikipedia reports that they first came to this country either in 1870 or 1874 in shipments of flaxseed from Russia. They have certainly taken a liking to our country.

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