The Most Beautiful Spot on Earth

Steens Mountain, Oregon. The highest road in the state ascending a spectacular fault-block mountain to a summit that peers down a mile to the desert below. This is looking north down the glacier-carved Kiger Gorge, with Pine Whites (Neophasia menapia) on Orange Sneezeweed, Dugaldia hoopesii. We also saw Black Rosy-Finches here.