Photo by Toni Youngblood
Several days last week I spent in Monument Valley, Utah. This area is very far south in Utah and part of the "Four Corners" region. The four corners are the touching corners of the states of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. Monument Valley is the location of a Navajo Nation Reservation. 
Photo by Toni Youngblood
The name "Monument Valley" comes from the rock formations, buttes that resemble man-made stone monuments.
Photo by Toni YoungbloodThe vistas are expansive. The peace is calming. From a great distance storms can be seen approaching, heard, felt and ultimately arrive and cleanse.
Photo by Toni Youngblood
The colors change before your eyes as the sun makes its way across the sky. At times, clouds of every kind form and filter and change the light. In wee early morning---the stars, the stars, the stars! The full moon was on us during our visit and the cool glow through a shroud of thin patchy clouds betrayed the hot red daytime color of earth. 
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The "Goosenecks" near Monument Valley are erosions from water and wind. It is difficult to wrap one's head around the vast depth of these river-bottomed canyons.
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A variety of geological happenings produced the beautiful creation of buttes, mesas, canyons and free standing rock formations that appear to defy gravity.
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What appears a contradiction---civilization needs the wild and natural---in order to be civilized.
Great Photos!! Looks like a fun trip!
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