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A pair of butterflies are having a great time in these sage blossoms

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08118-butterflies-sage-800px.jpg I walk a quarter mile up the wash, looking for signs of the old road to Tough Nut MineThumbnailsI stop at this small side wash and get out my map and compass to see if this might be the old road to Tough Nut Mine: wrong!I walk a quarter mile up the wash, looking for signs of the old road to Tough Nut MineThumbnailsI stop at this small side wash and get out my map and compass to see if this might be the old road to Tough Nut Mine: wrong!I walk a quarter mile up the wash, looking for signs of the old road to Tough Nut MineThumbnailsI stop at this small side wash and get out my map and compass to see if this might be the old road to Tough Nut Mine: wrong!I walk a quarter mile up the wash, looking for signs of the old road to Tough Nut MineThumbnailsI stop at this small side wash and get out my map and compass to see if this might be the old road to Tough Nut Mine: wrong!I walk a quarter mile up the wash, looking for signs of the old road to Tough Nut MineThumbnailsI stop at this small side wash and get out my map and compass to see if this might be the old road to Tough Nut Mine: wrong!

Several of these sages (probably salvia dorrii) are blooming profusely in this wash.