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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The farmer clearly has an artistic eye,creating patterns in the fields.

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Herfst in het Gulpdal.

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Limburgs Landschap serie.

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Colourful Spring Fields near N.Zichni, Serres, Greece.

Farm field in Stutsman County, North Dakota.

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Travelling throughout Poland in May, you cannot omit numerous rape fields, which look great on any photo :-)

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Neem een bocht doorheen de weiden. Met ontwakend groen, aan beide zijden. De wolken rijzen uit de grond, alsof de hemel nooit bestond.

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Its was one of those magical evenings in the fields, when the evening light was golden. 2018.

Merci pour vos commentaires sympathiques, et votre fidélité.

A très bientôt dans vos univers!

Thank you for your kind comments and fidelity.

See you soon!!

Merci aussi aux administrateurs de groupes pour leurs invitations

Many thanks to administrators of groups for invits

A field of lavender at Margate, Tasmania.

An early morning walk at the beginning of last year. Snow has fiinally arrived here, but so far the sky has been greyish. Am hoping for some good light within the next few days. Also hope that the first few days of 2017 have been good for you all. Thanks for taking the time to have a look/comment/fave/invite ~ always very much appreciated.

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Northwest Open Space, San Juan Capistrano, CA

One more year ....sunflowers

Rural New York State Delhi

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... Lavender's green, dilly, dilly

Lavender's blue

If you love me, dilly, dilly

I will love you

Let the birds sing, dilly, dilly

And the lambs play

We shall be safe, dilly, dilly

Out of harm's way

I love to dance, dilly, dilly

I love to sing

When I am queen, dilly, dilly

You'll be my king:

Who told me so, dilly, dilly

Who told me so?

I told myself, dilly, dilly

I told me so. - CINDERELLA (movie soundtrack)

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Zuri's Jewelry Pink Opal Ring (birthstone October)

Golden locket necklace (from my jewelry box)

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Dunnotar Castle is to the immediate left, on the next rocky outcrop.

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In June large purple fields of Alaskan lupine (Lupinus nootkatensis) are a common sight all over Iceland. This plant looks native but in fact it was introduced in Iceland in 1945 to prevent erosion of the soil.

Camden State Park, Minnesota