Two beautiful red-sandstone buttes weathered by eons of winds and rain sail along telling a tales of days gone by. The old west and much much more exposed in layers of earth and a sea of sky.
Tag: geology
Inherent
Beauty and geology were both inherent and walked hand in hand across the landscape on a fine fall day.
as the wind blew
As the wind blew the earth sang.
Shapes were shaped and colors were born.
Time walked ever on.
A Fortress
Built form the earth and carved by the sea.
Nature’s a fortress protecting me.
Cracked
I think there is a geology lesson, or three, to be learned here. Looking out towards the Absaroka mountains along the backbone of earth cracked open from the forces within.
Layers
Layers of color in a layered land. Northern Colorado near the Wyoming Border.
Hot Chocolate
A warm layered landscape is exposed like a cup of steaming hot chocolate with soft melty marshmallows floating on top.
Delicious.
Layers
Layers of color in a layered land. Northern Colorado near the Wyoming Border.
Passing time
I have always found it just a little more difficult to get excited about geology than the life sciences. Maybe it is how we have come to define life or maybe the story the earth has to tell is just a bit slower and more quiet than others being told these days. However, as we skied our way past stories like thee it was hard not to look and listen with full attention.
A Canyon carved by a mighty river replete with pinnacles and basaltic columns.
Basaltic columns sandwiched between layers of rock, earth and snow.
What looked like a mud encrusted cliff had a story hidden inside…
and yes life does test things out again and again.
Bentonite Hills
In a landscape where you feel like you are moving along with time.
Mud becomes rock and clouds pass by.
Bentonite Hills near Grand Junction, CO.
