Saturday, September 22, 2007

Petrified Forest / Painted Desert 9/16 A

Petrified Forest / Painted Desert 9/16 A

We took 102 pictures Sunday Sep 16.
Here are just a few.


This is/was a pueblo-style structure which the original people
built from petrified wood, which was an available material in this area.
One room has been "reconstructed", which is something
the Park Service would no longer do.


Here's some petrified wood.
Some of these logs (not these examples) were HUGE trees,
like 8 feet diameter



A view across the Painted Desert, with a rainstorm or two in the distance.
It seemd to be raining all around us but not on us this day.



A couple of views into a Badlands area within Painted Desert.


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