After Kevin cooked us a breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon, and I posted what we did on Saturday, we decided to take a drive towards Oak Creek Canyon as it has some beautiful scenery. I was able to get some beautiful pictures of the red rock scenery.
One stop along Old Oak Creek, there was a sign saying there was a Historic Landmark 1/4 mile ahead. So that was our next stop. It was Indian Gardens, home of the first settler in 1876 or 1877. We took some picture there. I had taken one of Kevin and he was getting ready to take one of me when a young woman that was there with her husband from Minnesota offered to take our picture. Kevin and I both noticed that she took both a horizontal and a vertical picture. So afterwards I asked her, are you a scrapbooker, she said yes. Kevin said you can always spot a scrapbooker by the way they take pictures...LOL. I then took their picture.
From there we decided to see if to go to either Meteor Crater or the Painted Desert depending on if we cound make it to the Painted Desert and back in time for our Haunted tour of Jerome. Unforunately we could not find the Painted Desert with the GPS system in the car to tell us how long it was going to take. We drove as far as Winslow not far past Meteror City and decided there just wasn't enough time for us to go to the Painted Desert and went back to Meteor Crater.
It really was something to see. It was designated a Natural Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1968. From 1964-1972, the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA provided extensive science training at Meteor Crater for the Apollo astronauts, under the guidance of Dr.'s Eugene Shoemaker and David Roddy, both with the Branch of Astrogeology of the U.S. Geologoical Survey. This training was particulary significant because scientists were extremely interested in what materials lay on the lunar surface as well as what was beneath the surface.
At the impact site, the cratering process ejects material that actually originates below the surface of the crater, therefore, when our astronauts went to the moon, they knew they should be able to collect material on ejecta blankets that orginated beneath the cratered region--a valuable sampling technique learned at Meteor Crater.
From where you stand, at the rim of the crater, the floor of the crater is 550 feet deep, equivalent to a 60 story building. If the Washington Monument were placed on the floor of the crater, its top would be at eye level. The crater is over 4,000 feet across and 2.4 miles in circumference. For a meterorite only 150 feet across to blast a hole three quarters of a mile wide and sixty stories deep, its high velocity is clearly one of the major factors required to create a crater this larger.
To give you a better idea as to the crater's size, imagine twenty football games being played simultaneously on its floor, while more than two million spectators observe from its sloping sides.
While we were view this awesome site there were areas in which the wind was so strong it must have been 40-50 miles per hour. Yet there was one spot where Kevin and I were about 10-15 feet apart, where Kevin was there was no wind, yet where I was the wind was blowing so strong that Kevin said "my hair looked like it was slicked back".
On the way back Kevin spotted a tree that looked like it was growing out of two trees. When he told me what he saw he said that would have made a good picture, wrong think to tell a scrapbooker....LOL. So needless to say, my next words were, well we can turn around and go back and take a picture. So on that little two lane road, that is what he did, found a spot wide enough to do so, luckily no cars were coming. Drove back less than 1/4 mile and we got the picture. Also on the way back to the interstate I wanted to get a picture of a ruin we had spotted on the way in, that we were not sure what the building was but it was interesting. I tried to get picture from the road we were on, and I could but it was still quite a ways away. So when we got up closer he noticed a gravel road going towards it so off we go. After just a bit we notice off to the side a no trepassing sign so we decide I better get a picture so we can turn around and go back...LOL. Isn't it wonderful what, that I have a hubby that can find these great photographic finds and be willing to back up, turn around, and go out of the way just to get the picture. Scrapbooking has not only improved my picture taking but his too, and helped both of us to look for those great picture sites.
Back at the resort we had just enough time for a quick dinner before heading off for our tour of Jerome.
One stop along Old Oak Creek, there was a sign saying there was a Historic Landmark 1/4 mile ahead. So that was our next stop. It was Indian Gardens, home of the first settler in 1876 or 1877. We took some picture there. I had taken one of Kevin and he was getting ready to take one of me when a young woman that was there with her husband from Minnesota offered to take our picture. Kevin and I both noticed that she took both a horizontal and a vertical picture. So afterwards I asked her, are you a scrapbooker, she said yes. Kevin said you can always spot a scrapbooker by the way they take pictures...LOL. I then took their picture.
From there we decided to see if to go to either Meteor Crater or the Painted Desert depending on if we cound make it to the Painted Desert and back in time for our Haunted tour of Jerome. Unforunately we could not find the Painted Desert with the GPS system in the car to tell us how long it was going to take. We drove as far as Winslow not far past Meteror City and decided there just wasn't enough time for us to go to the Painted Desert and went back to Meteor Crater.
It really was something to see. It was designated a Natural Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1968. From 1964-1972, the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA provided extensive science training at Meteor Crater for the Apollo astronauts, under the guidance of Dr.'s Eugene Shoemaker and David Roddy, both with the Branch of Astrogeology of the U.S. Geologoical Survey. This training was particulary significant because scientists were extremely interested in what materials lay on the lunar surface as well as what was beneath the surface.
At the impact site, the cratering process ejects material that actually originates below the surface of the crater, therefore, when our astronauts went to the moon, they knew they should be able to collect material on ejecta blankets that orginated beneath the cratered region--a valuable sampling technique learned at Meteor Crater.
From where you stand, at the rim of the crater, the floor of the crater is 550 feet deep, equivalent to a 60 story building. If the Washington Monument were placed on the floor of the crater, its top would be at eye level. The crater is over 4,000 feet across and 2.4 miles in circumference. For a meterorite only 150 feet across to blast a hole three quarters of a mile wide and sixty stories deep, its high velocity is clearly one of the major factors required to create a crater this larger.
To give you a better idea as to the crater's size, imagine twenty football games being played simultaneously on its floor, while more than two million spectators observe from its sloping sides.
While we were view this awesome site there were areas in which the wind was so strong it must have been 40-50 miles per hour. Yet there was one spot where Kevin and I were about 10-15 feet apart, where Kevin was there was no wind, yet where I was the wind was blowing so strong that Kevin said "my hair looked like it was slicked back".
On the way back Kevin spotted a tree that looked like it was growing out of two trees. When he told me what he saw he said that would have made a good picture, wrong think to tell a scrapbooker....LOL. So needless to say, my next words were, well we can turn around and go back and take a picture. So on that little two lane road, that is what he did, found a spot wide enough to do so, luckily no cars were coming. Drove back less than 1/4 mile and we got the picture. Also on the way back to the interstate I wanted to get a picture of a ruin we had spotted on the way in, that we were not sure what the building was but it was interesting. I tried to get picture from the road we were on, and I could but it was still quite a ways away. So when we got up closer he noticed a gravel road going towards it so off we go. After just a bit we notice off to the side a no trepassing sign so we decide I better get a picture so we can turn around and go back...LOL. Isn't it wonderful what, that I have a hubby that can find these great photographic finds and be willing to back up, turn around, and go out of the way just to get the picture. Scrapbooking has not only improved my picture taking but his too, and helped both of us to look for those great picture sites.
Back at the resort we had just enough time for a quick dinner before heading off for our tour of Jerome.
I keep trying to post but not successful yet as you can see. But will try once more...wow, wow, wow!! You are going to need a vacation to recover from your vacation!! But what a time you'll have scrapping these pics!!!
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