Emerald Pools

I've been home for over a week...forgot to post pix of the Emerald Pools at Zion.  There are three of them, nestled in a vast, sheltered grotto.  Near the lower pools, the trail passes under this overhang.

This view shows the overhang on the bottom...the lower pool is out of the picture below...with the grotto containing the upper pool at the top of the pic.  The middle pools are in the woods on top of the overhang.

A wispy waterfall descends from the overhang to the lower pool.  In wetter years you'd get soaked hiking under it, but at present there's only a fine mist.

The upper grotto is composed of a massive red rock wall.  Upper Emerald pool is at the base of the wall.  Looking up, I noticed some prominent fissures in the rock walls.  Sometime a lot of stone is gonna come down!  I was happy it didn't occur when I was there.  On a geologic scale big rockfalls happen often.  There was one in Zion in the 1990s.

Cool rocks and colors.

Red flowers and red rocks.