Rex Trulove
These are the painted hills in John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in northeastern Oregon. The banding on the rock, including those that are red, correspond to different periods in the past. Literally, from top to bottom, a person is looking backward in time.
These hills are also far larger than you might think. They are several hundred feet from top to bottom and this picture only takes in a section of the painted hills, left to right.
These pictures are quite a bit different than the pictures of western Oregon, aren’t they?
The rocks look like alive creatures.
They remind me of Arizona.