The Curtain Descends…
…everything ends, too soon, too soon…
(from the Kurt Weill & Ogden Nash song “Speak Low”)
A squall sweeps across Labyrinth Canyon, hiding buttes and canyon rims behind a curtain of mostly graupel (snow pellets). The squalls lasted most of the day, and were often accompanied by lightning and thunder, a novel aspect of this dynamic winter storm.
Sunlight shines through a few breaks in the clouds, illuminating the white rims of sandstone called (wait for it….) White Rim Sandstone, remnants of near-shore sand dunes deposited around 250 million years ago. A bit of the Green River, responsible for removing a massive amount of rock that once covered this scene, is visible on the right side. On the far right is the edge of Turks Head, a butte surrounded by the Green River. Just emerging from the curtain on the left (west) are the Buttes of the Cross and the snowy rims above the Orange Cliffs behind.
The Curtain Descends…
…everything ends, too soon, too soon…
(from the Kurt Weill & Ogden Nash song “Speak Low”)
A squall sweeps across Labyrinth Canyon, hiding buttes and canyon rims behind a curtain of mostly graupel (snow pellets). The squalls lasted most of the day, and were often accompanied by lightning and thunder, a novel aspect of this dynamic winter storm.
Sunlight shines through a few breaks in the clouds, illuminating the white rims of sandstone called (wait for it….) White Rim Sandstone, remnants of near-shore sand dunes deposited around 250 million years ago. A bit of the Green River, responsible for removing a massive amount of rock that once covered this scene, is visible on the right side. On the far right is the edge of Turks Head, a butte surrounded by the Green River. Just emerging from the curtain on the left (west) are the Buttes of the Cross and the snowy rims above the Orange Cliffs behind.