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Great Salt Lake/Farmington Bay

. . . with pelican.

Farmington Bay at sunset

Photo of the day (Farmington Bay & Wasatch Mountains, Davis County, Utah)

More Columbines above the Rock Island Trail in Lee's Summit

Roadside Dames Rockets

Sunday over the Great Salt Lake marshes

Winterset limestone above the Rock Island Trail in Lee's Summit.

Backyard wildflower plus cat

Columbines off the Rock Island Trail in Lee's Summit

Little Blue Park and trail

Green River, Utah

Biked to Dover Station. This is one of roughly 1000 *amazing* places along the Missouri River that you can visit on MoBikeFed's Lewis and Clark Missouri River Adventure Bicycle Route: https://ridewithgps.com/events/105329

Sunset at the Great Salt Lake. #utah #GreatSaltLake #BikeTooter #gravelbike #gravelcycling #photo

More from our visit to Crouse Canyon in the eastern #UintaMountains of #DaggettCounty #Utah. FYI the red sandstone formation you see throughout is the Uinta Mountain Formation, which has been called "the sandstone that fooled the great geologists".

Powell, Hayden, Emmons, and King all thought the rock was mid-Paleozoic but in fact it is *Pre-Cambrian*.

TLDR: They thought it was about 400 million years old but in fact it is 650 million - 2.5 billion years old. So they were off by a bit.

The Crouse Canyon formation here is about 800 million years old.

What is unusual for rock this old is that is it is mainly plain old sedimentary sandstone. Strange for rock buried 15-20,000 feet deep for several hundred million years. Some deeper/old layers are partially or completely metamorphosed, but these upper layers are not.

https://plantsandrocks.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-sandstone-that-fooled-great.html

#GreenRiver #BrownsPark #OutlawTrail #geology #precambrian #sandstone #metamorphic

Touring Crouse Canyon in the eastern #UintaMountains in #DaggettCounty #Utah #GreenRiver #BrownsPark #OutlawTrail

Moonset

Blue River #Trail in #KansasCity #Missouri

#Amtrak #CaliforniaZephyr following the #ColoradoRiver east through the #RockyMountains.

First post of the #CZSeries - reposted to add series tag and number: 1/23

FYI all photos were taken with a Moto G Stylus (2022), most using #GCam (specifically Google Camera LMC 8.4) in HDR+ Enhanced mode. A few were taken with the native Moto Camera app. Usually I process them a bit in Google Photos to de-tilt as needed and correct the colors.

For extra atmosphere, most all were taken through the (very) dirty windows of the California Zephyr, which are thick, green, covered in water spots, and quite reflective, especially when the photo is taken at any angle at all.

#trains #railroad #passengerrail #photography #colorado #rockies #scenery

Final #photos taken on my #CaliforniaZephyr trip in November- arriving at my CZ destination of #galesburg #illinois.

From here I'll transfer to the #SouthwestChief for Kansas City. It's just a short layover - and they even managed to transfer all my luggage over correctly. A California Zephyr miracle!

#amtrak #trains #railroad #passengerrail #photography #scenery #midwest #CZSeries​ 23/23