Arches

After spending the night in Moab, UT, the early morning sun found me on a trail in Arches National Park. This place is truly beautiful. There are large formations of red sandstone clustered together throughout the desert grouped as if they were outposts protecting each other against the flat vagueness of the desert around them.
I hiked to the most famous arch in the world, Delicate Arch, and it was certainly impressive. Standing alone for no apparent reason it stretches over 50 feet in the air and then back down defying gravity and time. The landscape of this desert with its petrified sand dunes can't be that distant from Mars.