vacation pictures #5: south coyote buttes

[ilanarama]

I...I'm going to have to punt, here. Because the South Coyote Buttes are so mind-blowingly magnificent - the colors, the shapes, the sheer abstract artistry - that I really don't have anything to say. I've uploaded thirty pictures to my Flickr site, and you can find them all here. Or do the slideshow thing. There's a sliver of moon over a butte, there's a weird tower with a window in it, there are stripes, there are squiggles, there's a couple pictures of me. Um, yeah. Ogg say: sandstone nifty, make pretty pictures.

Comments

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

Taffy! It's rock made out of taffy! The pics at the end of the flickr site in particular. Amazing photos.

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

WOW. They are mind-blowingly magnificent! I don't have time to say more, am packing for con.txt, but just wanted to appreciate these. WOW. And *waves* Thanks for sharing them! {{{hugs}}}

[libitina]

These are all so beautiful that it's rather overwhelming - I'd love to see it in person someday.

[ptyx.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, magnificent! The colors!!!

[jeddy83.livejournal.com]

I feel so insignificant just looking at these photos; I can't imagine what it would be like to see them up close. The length of time it must have taken to first build up all those layers of sediment and then expose them. It's incredible.

[alembicresearch.livejournal.com]

Beauty!

I'm always stuned and amazed by the way the rocks
in the southwest look/are.

So different from the geology I grew up with here in California,
where its just greyish "rounded" granite.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

The lines cut into the rock like in the last picture in that set are really interesting. Amazing landscape.