Photos of the Fleeting Moment a Desert Blooms

Utah’s badlands are an arid, dessert environment like many others – dusty, grey, and dappled with cracks and crevices.

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But every few years, some rain comes at just the right time, and the conditions are just right, and this empty environment bursts into life, one tiny flower at a time.

They come up out of the cracks:

Photo by Guy Tal

They spill across the dessert floor like a bucket of paint turned sideways.

Photo by Guy Tal

And suddenly, they’re everywhere.

Photo by Guy Tal

Photo by Guy Tal

Photo by Guy Tal

Photo by Guy Tal

Photo by Adam Barker

Photo by Guy Tal

Photo by Guy Tal

But almost as soon as they come, they go. The earth dries out, the flowers shrink back, and the land is arid again.

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But it’s no less beautiful.

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