{"id":5805,"date":"2014-11-19T23:56:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T06:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2014-11-19T23:56:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T06:56:10","slug":"along-the-colorado-riverway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/19\/along-the-colorado-riverway\/","title":{"rendered":"Along The Colorado Riverway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I made a road trip that included driving to Moab along the Colorado Riverway. Here are a sample of some images made on that first day. They sky was full of fabulous cloud formations, with the moon just visible among the clouds, in the late afternoon. I stopped near Castle Valley, just past Fischer Towers, that may be seen on the far left of this image.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5802\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1474-0021-Castle-Valley-Colorado-Riverway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5802\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5802\" alt=\"1474-0021-Castle-Valley-Colorado-Riverway\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1474-0021-Castle-Valley-Colorado-Riverway.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castle Valley, Colorado Riverway<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Further along the road was a knoll, that I climbed to make the following image.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5803\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1474-0039-Parriott-Mesa-Castle-Valley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5803\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5803\" alt=\"1474-0039-Parriott-Mesa-Castle-Valley\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1474-0039-Parriott-Mesa-Castle-Valley.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parriott Mesa, Castle Valley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Before the sunset approached, I stopped beside the Colorado River, for this image of the sandstone cliffs on the north side of the river. The river marks the south boundary of Arches National Park.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5804\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1474-0061-Colorado-Riverway-Sunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5804\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5804\" alt=\"1474-0061-Colorado-Riverway-Sunset\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1474-0061-Colorado-Riverway-Sunset.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorado Riverway Sunset<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This image shows one feature of sandstone in the south west &#8212; the blue-black patina on the rock face is known as &#8220;Desert Varnish&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I made a road trip that included driving to Moab along the Colorado Riverway. Here are a sample of some images made on that first day. They sky was full of fabulous cloud formations, with the moon just visible among the clouds, in the late afternoon. I stopped near Castle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[924,126,387,926,928,925,927,923,786,929,266,27],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-castle-valley","tag-clouds","tag-colorado-river","tag-colorado-riverway","tag-desert-varnish","tag-fisher-towers","tag-mesa","tag-moab","tag-moon","tag-patina","tag-sandstone","tag-sunset"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-1vD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5810,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}