Trample

I don't know what it was which trampled these reeds or why. Reminded me of when I was a kid and we used to create "forts" out of whatever we could find, creating spaces out in the wilderness which we would pretend were houses, or even whole villages.

Another photo of the painted desert

I'm pretty pleased with the way that this photograph of the painted desert came out also. I actually turned down several opportunities that day-- there was some hazy air, or I just didn't like the view, or we were just plain in a hurry to get moving before the park closed down. FYI, the park closed down at about 6pm and it's got to take 30 minutes to drive across it. Landscape photographers generally swarm around sunset (and sunrise, but not me man !) so there goes the photo opps at this time of year because the sun is currently setting at about 6:47pm. Oh yeah, you can buy the photo here.