Painted Desert and Petrified Natural Forest Saturday November 14, 2009

Hello everyone, While touring the Petrified Natural Forest we learned why this Park unique. Petrified wood can be found many places but only here has the wood turned into stone and indeed valuable minerals through a chemical process. One could be convinced they had landed on the moon since the barren landscape resembles that seen of moon shots. The colors of the rock formations in the Painted Desert were beautiful hues of pastels and earth tones. To think that dinosoeurs walked this ground gave us an eerie feeling!