This balanced rock is just nine miles from the entrance to Arches National Park in Utah.
This photo was taken from the Arches Entrance Road that goes through Arches National Park.
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We spent about 20-30 minutes quickly driving through Arches national park. We were on a tight schedule to make it back for a meeting in Provo. But here are a few of the pictures taken pretty close to sunset.
Official Website of Arlington National Cemetary – http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/
Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a great grand-daughter of Martha Washington. The cemetery is situated directly across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.. It is served by the Arlington Cemetery station on the Blue Line of the Washington Metro system.
In an area of 624 acres (2.53 km2), veterans and military casualties from each of the nation’s wars are interred in the cemetery, ranging from the American Civil War through to the military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pre-Civil War dead were reinterred after 1900.
While working on pictures in my office I saw through the cracks in the shutter quite a lot of colors peaking through… so I ran outside and just had to take a few pictures of this extraordinary sunset.
Pictures are of Lehi Utah just around my office.
To Learn More about Lehi, Utah – http://www.lehicity.com/
On a drive from the East entrance of the park down to the valley floor for some late evening and sunset pictures at the Court of the Patriarchs
Here are some just prior to sunset just on the west side of the tunnel.
Below is on the valley floor near the river that runs through the park
And then the shots as the last rays of light bring life to the clouds near these peaks. – Following pictures were taken from here at the stop for the Court of the Patriarchs
Official Zion National Park Website – http://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zion National Park is located in the Southwestern United States, near Springdale, Utah. A prominent feature of the 229 square miles (590 km2) park is Zion Canyon, which is 15 miles (24 km) long and up to half a mile (800 m) deep, cut through the reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone by the North Fork of the Virgin River. The lowest elevation is 3,666 ft (1,117 m) at Coalpits Wash and the highest elevation is 8,726 ft (2,660 m) at Horse Ranch Mountain. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park’s unique geography and variety of life zones allow for unusual plant and animal diversity. Numerous plant species as well as 289 species of birds, 75 mammals (including 19 species of bat), and 32 reptiles inhabit the park’s four life zones: desert, riparian, woodland, and coniferous forest. Common plant species include cottonwood, Cactus, Datura, Juniper, Pine, Boxelder, Sagebrush, yucca , and various willows. Notable megafauna include mountain lions, mule deer, and Golden Eagles, along with the reintroduced Bighorn Sheep. Zion National Park also has rare and endangered species such as the Peregrine Falcon, Mexican spotted owl, California condor, desert tortoise, and the Zion snail (found nowhere else on earth). Zion National Park includes mountains, canyons, buttes, mesas, monoliths, rivers, slot canyons, and natural arches.
