It was not my first rodeo at Monument valley. But I still got the chills looking at these towering buttes and mesas rising above the vast dry desert floor of the Colorado Plateau. And on this particular day, a transient sandstorm created a layer of haze around the shale skirts of the buttes and exaggerated the vast wild West atmosphere exuded by the Valley of the Rocks.

The park is still closed, and that prevented us from getting up close and personal with these monuments. But they still held their beauty from afar.

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
AZ USA