Where is this picture taken? It is part of a video that includes the Star Spangled Banner so I am guessing that it is in the US.
The video plays on many of the Gray Television channels. Here locally it plays about 12:35 am.
https://www.graydc.com/content/news/Gray-Television-stations-to-air-national-anthem-510982882.html
James
No guessing required. It is the Garden of the Gods, near Colorado Springs, CO.
The red-colored vertical rocks are the Fountain Formation, a Pennsylvanian-aged, coarse-grained, fluvial deposit more particularly described as a series of coalesced alluvial fan deposits that some folks call bajadas.?ÿ The rocks have been rotated 90?ø to a vertical position by the subsequent Laramide orogeny.
West of Lakewood, CO the Fountain Formation was only tilted approx. 30?ø. You've probably heard of the Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a great outdoor concert venue.?ÿ If you prefer golfing among the Red Rocks, go south a bit and you'll end up at the Arrowhead Golf Course, which is adjacent to Roxborough State Park.?ÿ Lots of other great examples between Denver and Colorado Springs.
Someone told me that today but I didn't believe them based solely on the fact that it was entirely too green around it to be anywhere in Colorado. Looking at it on Google Earth, that green must have been a one-time thing.
Thanks,
James
I lived in the Garden of the Gods neighborhood in Sacramento for 20 years.
The official name is Arden Oaks Vista but nobody calls it that because of the street names, Venus, Ceres, Mercury. Except we lived on Ulysses, a Roman General, not a God.
@dave-karoly And I would have thought that you lived on a street named after a book by James Joyce.
Ulysses is the Roman version/renaming of Creek Odysseus.
I can vouch for the green, especially in the spring. These formations run all along the base of the front range. In my experience working in boulder, Douglas and el Paso counties, these rocks are very large and very red, the light green is walkable terrain, but the dark green is scrub oaks, and I've invented new cuss words trying to walk through it.
I've never cussed scrub oak because it has a property I REALLY appreciate as an old, fluffy, phart! I often get tangled up in it, esp. when it is taller than me, but because it is so dense, it always cushions my fall, keeping my vital areas from all the hard, sharp rocks!?ÿ ?????ÿ
It can be a wee bit too tall for an RTK rover.
But I still found the stone buried under the scrub oak!
Besides, it is fodder for the moose.
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Sorry; C for Creek, G for Greek.?ÿ Hydrological issues on my mind.?ÿ
