Canyonlands National Park - Island in the Sky.....

Views from Island in the Sky reach from the depths of the Green & Colorado rivers to the mountaintops and above. They stretch across canyon after canyon to the horizon 100 miles distant. A broad mesa wedged between the Green & Colorado serves as Canyonlands' observation tower. From here you can see vistas of almost incomprehensible dimensions.

As always, thanks for your comments & invites!!!!

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"The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mesa Arch, Canyonlands...Utah, 2009 View On Black

Have a great Thursday....thanks for stopping by to visit....only 8 days to Christmas!!!

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"It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like. " ~ Jack Schmitt

Still sorting through archives from last fall's trip to the Southwest - photographed at the Green River Overlook in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park.

Hope everyone has a great week; little behind in posting and catching up :-) As always, thanks for your visit!!! View On Black Explored February 9, 2010 - #478

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"Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed." ~ Edward Abbey

Canyonlands National Park - Island in the Sky District - September 2009 View On Black

Normally, I don't include people in my photos, but I thought it was appropriate for this scene in order to provide the viewer with some scale of the vastness of this landscape. And of course, it doesn't hurt that it happens to be my better half, Mike. Have a great Thursday......comments & invites are always appreciated :-)

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"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. " ~John Muir
And as John Muir would say (adapted of course), "the Carribean is calling & we must go...."

Canyonlands, Mesa Arch, Utah - September 2009 View On Black

This will be my last post until we return from our trip to the Southern Carribean...we will be visiting the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Turks & Caicos, Curacao, Bonaire, & Aruba this time around so hopefully I will have plenty of new images to share with everyone when we return in a couple of weeks. Until then, take care....and as always, thanks for your visits :-)

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