Tumbleweeds

We got back to the Needles turnoff on Highway 119 just as a dust storm started moving in, and by the time we were north of Moab it looked like this outside.

Huge clumps of tumbleweeds, collected on the roadside fences, would periodically break free and roll across the highway. Individual tumbleweeds like this could be run over relatively safely, but quite a few were so large as to require drivers to dodge and weave as best they could.