National Monuments (before they disappear)

I've been planning a trip to the Southern Utah and Northern Arizona border areas for a while.

Two of the National Monuments our current leader wants to "review" are in this part of the country and I wanted to see them before they turn into uranium mines.

These are the Grand Staircase Escalante  (President Clinton) and the Bears Ears (Obama).

Worth the trip...

Big sky country (apologies to Montana, which, despite its claim to a big sky monopoly, can't really own such). It's the West, you get a lot of sky all over the place out here...

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes dark, sometimes not...

 

 

 

 

This one felt a little Modigliani...

 

 

 

Dinosaur bones said Rebecca, well, maybe...

 

 

 

 

Navaho Mountain, seen from the north shore of Lake Powell, early evening...

 

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