National Parks of USA

[Lori S.]

On south part we find 200 milions years old petrified trunks. They come from trias (?) and lie in national park.

In English, that would be the Triassic Period... (or, at 200 MM years ago, just edging into the Jurassic...)

[Ewelina Wajgert]

This park was for me absolute novelty. I haven't earlier neither heard about it nor seen it on the photos in internet.

[Ewelina Wajgert]

On south part we find 200 milions years old petrified trunks. They come from trias (?) and lie in national park.

In English, that would be the Triassic Period... (or, at 200 MM years ago, just edging into the Jurassic...)

Lori, thank you for fast correction. I cann't find all the words, that I will use in my dictionary. If I haven't language problems, I'd like to write more. 

[Lvandelft]

Ewelina, what magnificent places you visited!
Painted Desert and Petrified Forest are really from another planet. Enormous landscapes and beautiful pictured.
I am glad to read you are only halfway with showing your pictures

[Ewelina Wajgert]

These are lying near Visitor Center (south exit)

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Painted Desert and Arizona's Desert in the light of the setting sun

1. 7:05 pm
2. 7:19 pm
3. 7:30 pm

It's getting dark very fast and early in July in Arizona.

Good night!

[Armin]

Ewelina,

I'm speechless to see the amount and sizes of fossilized tree trunks wow!

Some years ago there was a finding of a fossilized tree trunk in one of our local gravel pits.
Size of finding was about 1m in length and 45cm in diameter.

A publication of a picture in the local newspaper caused a run of hobby archaeologists digging in the gravel pits for weeks and without any additional findings...

Compared with your pictures from this wunderful archaic place it makes me thinking our local finding was just peanuts...

[Ragged Robin]

Ewelina, your posting is just mind boggling - such things could only be imagined and there you are sitting amongst such antiquity - what an amazing experience and thank you for sharing your images and thoughts, perfectly described 

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Compared with your pictures from this wunderful archaic place it makes me thinking our local finding was just peanuts...

These pieces in NP are really big. All is under camera and rangers have a right to control the cars leaving NP.

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Between Payson and Phoenix we drive into "saquaros forest". Cactuses are gigantic, make impression. We struggle through prickly vegetation in order to take some photos. Then we must long pull thorns from clothing and body out. Some saquaroses have already some branches. Between them grow cholies, barels and other dried plants that didn't stand heat and wait for some rain to bring back to live.

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Some branches are fanciful curved, some have already children on the top.

[Maggi Young]

All these fine photos from America brought this to mind.....

I have heard recently an interesting story about the origin of the Grand Canyon in the USA ...

 

A long time ago  a man from Bavaria was walking in the area, and he met there two people from Scotland .The Scottish people asked what the Bavarian was he doing ( he was digging ) .... and this man told them he had lost a long nail and was searching for it .....but as  it seemed there was no chance to find it again he was going to give up and go away.....some time later  the Scottish people began to dig  ....and now we have the result : the Grand Canyon !!!
 

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Amusing story, Maggi.

Dig still! Next time canyon is deeper 

[Maggi Young]

Amusing story, Maggi.

Dig still! Next time canyon is deeper  

No need, Ewelina, the Bavarian gave up looking for the nail... but the Scots found the lost nail.... no need to dig more! Think how deep they might have dug if the nail were gold??!!!!

[Ewelina Wajgert]

USA doesn't lack gold-diggers. Everywhere we have met gold-mines. One of them (in Idaho Springs) I have already showed on beginning of this thread. Our guide told us various stories connected with gold.

1. Black Hawk in Colorado is one of the towns inhabited by gold-diggers
2. Gold-mine in Rocky Mountains
3. Museum in Black Hawk

There are more the similar gold-mines mostly in Colorado. So, I think arise the new canyons, which we can visit next time   
We have digged one ourselves