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Is this horizontal or vertical? |
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Aerial view of something |
I have always loved rocks, but I can't remember schist! Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary I get, but then I hit a cliff at Cambrian, Permian, Ordowhatever.
I have given myself permission to like rocks without knowing or understanding geology. I guess this could be called appreciating.
There's probably an app for identifying the rocks you look at, or the scenes that pass below you on a plane. The aerial view on the left was somewhere between Dallas and San Jose. Narrows it down, doesn't it?
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Nature's gift-wrap |
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I go to a beach known for its pebbles I just plain enjoy it -- the
sights and the sounds of the waves shusshing among the pebbles. Every
rounded stone is a work of art, sculpted and painted by God and all the
angels. I want to bring them home with me -- I sometimes do smuggle a
few.
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ladybug on a rock on a hand at the beach |
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arrangement by tides |
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Shiny objects |
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What's the scale? |
There's a lady in my neighborhood whose whole front yard is towers of graduated-sized rocks, balnced with no mortar. She's also the one who planted trees and inscribed paths on the flood-plain and rearranges the rocks in the creek so it will babble more! I haven't gotten this bad yet.
Here's how I classify my photos of rocks: Rocks that stick up
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lava tree Hawaii |
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Walnut Canyon AZ |
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Pescadero penis rock - now gone |
Rocks you can look through
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Window Rock AZ |
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natural bridges Santa Cruz |
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Santa Cruz |
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Rocks that look back at you!
Rocks that look like maps
Rocks that look like cakes
Taking pictures of the mesas, buttes, and canyons on my trip was a case of "Look! There's another neat rock!" And another, and another! The colors, the way the sunlight hit and reflected and shadowed; the wish again, like my pebbles on the beach, to take them all home with me. Some places did not allow photographs of people or cultural remains, but scenery was OK. It's not easy to shoot from the back seat of a van or from a jouncing 4WD!
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Walnut Canyon |
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Canyon de Chelly overlook |
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I think White House is in the niche |
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Lichens at Canyon de Chelly |
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Driving along Chinle Wash into C. de Chelly |
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cat rock |
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natural bridge |
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Near the Zuni Reservation, NM |
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