Lens Artists Photo Challenge #295 – Rock Your World

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In honor of Earth Day Donna asks us to “showcase anything from rocky landscapes to cobblestone streets”. I was excited when I first read her challenge because I have so many pictures of rocks I didn’t even know where to begin. It was hard but I finally chose the few I’ve included here.

The header image and the first gallery are natural rocks I’ve found during our travels. The header is of cactus flowers growing on top of Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg, Texas.

Black lava rocks, St. Kits
Barbados
Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland
Creek in Georgia
Rock formation at Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
Balanced Rock at Arches National Park
Grand Canyon North Rim Point Imperial
Three Patriarchs in Zion National Park

These next magnificent natural rocks deserve a gallery of their own.

Devil’s Tower, Wyoming
Enchanted Rock, Texas
Looking Glass Rock, Blue Ridge Parkway
Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California

The next gallery shows some ancient man made rock structures.

Beehive huts, Dingle Peninsula, Ireland
Ancient Pueblo dwellings, Hovenweep National Monument, Colorado and Utah
Bridge at Eileen Donan Castle, Scottish Highlands
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Stone Stairs in a castle in the Scottish Highlands

This final gallery includes some rocks Henry collected during our years of Wandering Around the United States and Canada in our RV. If any of you have ever seen the 1954 movie “The Long, Long Trailer” starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz you’ll know that rock collecting while traveling in an RV might not be a good idea.

After we watched the movie, I resisted collecting rocks. Little did I know that Henry was collecting them! Luckily, he limited his collection to small rocks. The three in the big image on the left were collected during our Alaska and Canadian travels in 2013. The two smaller images on the right are the front and back of a rock Henry picked up in the cemetery near Seth Bullock’s grave.

Many thanks to our host Donna for the challenge Lens-Artists #295 – Rock Your World

26 thoughts on “Lens Artists Photo Challenge #295 – Rock Your World”

  2. Love all the rock pictures! And I love “The Long, Long Trailer.” Perhaps we can visit “Enchanted Rock” when we are in Texas later this year. Thanks for your post!

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    1. Betty, several years ago we spent two months wandering around Texas. We hiked up to the top of Enchanted Rock. I’m not sure I could do it today LOL. The Texas Hill country is a beautiful area. We were there in April and the timing was perfect to see the Bluebonnets. We also loved the Texas Gulf Coast. If you go back to my 2015 March and April posts you can read about our Texas adventures and the state parks and COE parks where we camped.

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  4. As a native Texan, I enjoyed seeing Enchanted Rock in your “collection”. I’m also glad I experienced it in my younger years. Word of warning to those planning to visit – summer is brutal and don’t be caught up there in a thunderstorm!

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  5. Beith, once again your post is filled with this beautiful planet and places you discovered along the way. You are such a resource for places to go, a blog I read and often shout to my husband: “have you heard of this”. We have traveled extensively too, and yet I love seeing places through your lens. Such a well-organized feast of images. So many to love, but spacial attention for me was the beehive huts, the rocky bridge at the Scottish Highlands, St. Kits and the Giant Causeway.

    And now I need to rewatch Lucy and her travel adventure. Wonderful. Thank you.

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  12. When you said you had lots of rock photos, you weren’t kidding. With as much traveling as you have done, it isn’t surprising though. You really captured natural at its best.

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