The combination of red and green is stirring partly because they're complimentary colors that play off each other (as opposites on the color wheel), with clear blue sky as backdrop to the rousing drama of thunderheads...to the accompaniment of meadowlarks and crickets.
The redbeds were laid down during the Triassic, about 250,000,000 - 200,000,000 years ago (zeros for emphasis!). Dinosaurs only began appearing late in this period. For perspective, homo sapiens have been around for about 300,000 years, the USA for a mere 243. Now here I am almost 70, not even a century's tick in time, yet it's been a long life.
The muds, silts, and sands deposited along marine margins were eventually buried and cooked to mudstone, siltstone, and sandstone. Their different hardnesses create the variable erosion which sculpt the shapely stone we see.
Windrows are great for patterns!
It's so idyllic I can barely stand it...
...with family-owned ranches...
...and good mamas who always bring snacks for the road.
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