The above pic is from the Views from the Road 2005 set. It was commented on at Flickr that it reminded of Tit Mountain between El Paso and Austin. This is more like a stripper’s pastie, I suppose.
The pic was taken on lands near the Petrified Forest National Park and that’s a big piece of petrified wood sitting atop that lovely cone of Painted Desert. When the Museum of the Americas was still open, they had a little drive thru you could make on their land to see all the petrified wood there and an occasional lurking dinosaur. That’s where this photo was made. However, there was something about the positioning of many of the logs that gave me the feeling they’d been given perhaps a little assistance in their placement, just a little too perfect, the scent of a stage hand lurking in the wings, and I have found that Roadside America shared the same suspicion. Still, it is entirely possible the logs have been lying there exactly like that (or almost) since before human kind first stubbed its toe on the Continental Divide.
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