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.. continuing on with our trip, we headed out from kingman, az towards the hoover dam.
along the way I saw some wildflowers, and when we stopped at a rest area near the dam
a navajo woman was selling some very nice jewelry. she told us that she had seen at least
five different herds of bighorn sheep around the area, but we didn't happen to see any.
please note that this is winter, and the fact that in my arizona cacti thread and this one
there are any flowers is only because in the last two weeks they had had some substantial
rain (and that in central arizona it's warmer/lower elevation than in some surrounding areas).
normally there wouldn't be anything flowering.

there will be some large, merged images of the dam and other areas


wildflowers along the road; in any low ditch or nearby runnel there would be large groups
of these flowers. if anyone knows their name, feel free to chime in!


view through to mountains near/below the dam


some nearby flowers nearly spent; I believe these are brittlebush


at the rest stop in az before the dam, this navajo woman (and her family) were selling
jewelry that she had made. it was all very nice! during conversation we learned that
my stepfather had purchased some east of phoenix on the way to airport to pick me up,
and it was this woman's sister (and family) who had sold him the jewelry!


nice example of some of the necklaces


(merged view) this was the view from the rest area; the water in the middle is the
outflow of the hoover dam


just to left of dam structure was this memorial area. the two sculptures are supposed to
idealize the merging of people and eagles


this is the top of one of the nevada-side water intakes; a set of two on each side, and
the front ones will have a clock showing nevada time, and on other end of dam arizona time


yours truly again


merged view of dam front. with my lens impossible to even get close to getting all
or most of it (huge)


merged view from the back showing a set of water intake gates (arizona side) and
the lake behind it


this plaque shows every physical detail about the dam, and the cities initially served by its construction