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The Painted Desert area is a broad region of rocky badlands encompassing more than 93,500 acres, this vast landscape features rocks in every hue – from deep lavenders and rich grays to reds, oranges and even pinks.
Located in Northern Arizona, the Painted Desert stretches from Grand Canyon National Park eastward to Petrified Forest National Park, with a large portion lying within the Navajo Nation.
A natural canvas millions of years in the making, no one event shaped the Painted Desert. Instead, the area – which is home to many memorable formations and features – serves as proof of the earth’s volatility: volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods and sunlight all combined to create the Painted Desert. Deposits of clay and sandstone, stacked in elegant layers, play with the setting Arizona sun in an altering display of colorful radiance.
Both the Navajo and Hopi people have lived in the region for hundreds of years, but it was Spanish Colonialists who gave this landscape the name we know it by today – El Desierto Pintado.
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Copyright ©Maria Gemma June, 2015
Known for steep canyon walls dotted with greenery and hundreds of ancient pueblo ruins, Canyon de Chelly reflects one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes in North America. Distinctive architecture, artifacts and rock imagery are all remarkably preserved, providing a peek into the lives of the canyon’s earliest inhabitants. Today, a Navajo Indian community still inhabits the canyon floor, herding sheep during the summer months.
Several hundred prehistoric ruins can be found throughout Canyon de Chelly. Built between 350 and 1300 A.D, these dwellings were once inhabited by the Ancient Puebloan People once called Anasazi. In the 1700s, Navajo Indians began to make their way west from northern New Mexico, eventually settling in Canyon de Chelly. Designated as a National Monument in 1931, today Canyon de Chelly is the only National Park Service site to be completely located within the Navajo Nation.
Replete with picturesque vistas of rocky outcroppings and dry riverbeds, Canyon de Chelly’s most distinctive geological feature is Spider Rock – a sandstone spire similar to those that dominate the landscape in nearby Monument Valley – which rises from the canyon floor.
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Gemma
Copyright ©Maria Gemma June, 2014
The Painted Desert area is a broad region of rocky badlands encompassing more than 93,500 acres, this vast landscape features rocks in every hue – from deep lavenders and rich grays to reds, oranges and even pinks.
Located in Northern Arizona, the Painted Desert stretches from Grand Canyon National Park eastward to Petrified Forest National Park, with a large portion lying within the Navajo Nation.
A natural canvas millions of years in the making, no one event shaped the Painted Desert. Instead, the area – which is home to many memorable formations and features – serves as proof of the earth’s volatility: volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods and sunlight all combined to create the Painted Desert. Deposits of clay and sandstone, stacked in elegant layers, play with the setting Arizona sun in an altering display of colorful radiance.
Both the Navajo and Hopi people have lived in the region for hundreds of years, but it was Spanish Colonialists who gave this landscape the name we know it by today – El Desierto Pintado.
Thank you for your comments.
Gemma
Copyright ©Maria Gemma June, 2014
Not HDR~ just the way it is here! The clouds are so poofy and they just float by~so close you could reach up and touch one!
Thought I would throw a few from my very brief but fun stint in Navajo Country~had a blast running amok with Robin (Black) and can't wait to see her in a few!
Thanks to my girl, Dene~we kicked it at the COOLEST HOTEL ever in the history of ever~ see below - and, I totally owe her one for that one!!!!
Happy Friday:)
Moran Point, Grand Canyon, Arizona sunset over Coronado Butte and the New Hance Trail, with Hance Rapid and the Colorado River below. Royalty-free use per (CC BY 2.0)
Said to be the tallest cliff in Colorado, and one of the tallest in the United States. Near Montrose, Colorado.
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Queen Hatshepsut 18th Dynasty bust found at Deir el-Bahari outside of Thebes (Modern Luxor) in Upper Egypt. Now held in the Cairo Egyptian Museum.
Hatshepsut is considered to be one of the most powerful female rulers of ancient Egypt and the possible pharaoh’s daughter who drew baby Moses from the Nile river as recorded in the Bible’s book of Exodus.
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Une vue un peu différente de l'Arizona (USA) de celle que j'ai mis aujourd'hui avec des forêts verdoyantes... Beau coucher de soleil !
Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt. Believed to have been created by pharaoh Khafre (Greek Chephren) of the 4th Dynasty Old Kingdom in association with his pyramid, this guardian of the Giza Plateau is said to have been built around 2500 BC. #sphinx #egypt
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Ancient Egyptian funerary stela from a tomb in the Ramesseum in Thebes. The painting is of Djed-Khonsu-iw-es-ankh, who wears a white gown and perfume-soaked wax cone on her head.
She is making offerings to Ra-Horakhty (Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons), in the form of the sun god. The text asks the gods to provide her with food and drink for her spirit in the afterlife.
"An offering which the king gives to Re-Horakhty, the Great God, Lord of Heaven, that he may give invocation offerings consisting of offerings and food to the Osiris, Lady of the House, the noblewoman, Djed-Khonsu-iw-es-ankh, deceased, daughter of the priest of Amun-Ra, King of the Gods, Master of the Secrets of the Garments of the Gods, Ser-Djehuty."
In the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago.
Willie Wonka eat your heart out. This is Black Falls on the Little Colorado River, just outside Wupatki National Monument.
Ancient Egyptian game board for Aseb, or "20 Squares". Similar to Senet, it is related to the Royal Game of Ur, and probably came to Egypt from ancient Sumer during the 17th Dynasty.
This game set is made from wood, copper alloy, faience, and knuckle bones. Attributed to someone named Akhmim during the 18th to 20th Dynasties.