Vermillion Cliffs-Arizona

US Hwy 89A was a very exciting adventure yesterday.

We were headed down to get to our campground

right across from Monument Valley before dark 

and admired how pretty those red cliffs are.

And then a storm blew in.

And it got darker and of course the rain came.

Well it appears in the valley here with the red

clay - water and/or rain is not its friend.

As we were heading on our merry way - all of a sudden

the cars coming the other way were flashing their

headlights and waving.

We looked around and found nope - no sneaky cops

lurking in the bush waiting to nab you for speeding as

the sheriff already passed us.

Tom checked the lights and yup - they were on.

Well.

It appears that in Arizona - flashing lights means

flashing flooding and not only that

big boulders fell in the middle of the road and

workers are still trying to remove it the next day.

See that big mud pile - couldn't get a photo of the boulders though.

Because we had to return the same way we came

and go 100 miles out of our way to get where we wanted to go.

And in a couple cases we had to plow throw about

an inch of the muddy red clay.

Oh look the storm over the cliffs left.

Rainbow over Lake Palmer.

And if you could see how I got this shot you'd be

impressed. Sortof.

It was a driveby and I had to shoot from the passenger

seat across the driver - and out the driver's window

that has a bit of a concave to it.

Trick shot.

bwahahaha!

We made it to the campground way after dark

but did stop for a beautiful sunset.