The waterpocket fold

So many different geologic landscapes today, my head is overdosed and reeling with colors and forms. Lovely coffee at the Kiva coffee house outside of Escalante this morning. and then the amazing route 12... one of the most scenic highways in America. There’s a fine Anasazi museum in Boulder with all kinds of ruins from the same farming Ancient Pueblo people that lived in Mesa Verde... they left around the same time (1300) to go south and be part of other tribes (Hopi, Zuni, Paiute)). And then Capital Reef NP , formed over millions of years when geologic forces shaped, lifted, and folded the earth creating this area known as the waterpocket fold. It’s all high desert, the Colorado plateau, having been pushed upwards millions of years ago, and yet it’s so interesting that all these forms have been created by water. I will have a really hard time choosing just some photos for an album of this area... the extras show a couple different looks along this same stretch of remote highway. Aspens on Boulder mountain, and farther east, Cathedral valley that look like sandcastles. Ran out of time today , spending the night in Moab. All I can manage today...