{"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":"

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

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Castle Valley, Colorado Riverway<\/p><\/div>\n

Further along the road was a knoll, that I climbed to make the following image.<\/p>\n

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Parriott Mesa, Castle Valley<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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Colorado Riverway Sunset<\/p><\/div>\n

This image shows one feature of sandstone in the south west — the blue-black patina on the rock face is known as “Desert Varnish”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t