The gnarled branches of a dead tree frame one of the many cut-outs in the Sandstone formations of Monument Valley on the Navajo Reservation in North Eastern Arizone.
The ritver below, as seen from the South Rim on a cold winter's morning, is the Colorado, and the canyon is on of the seven contemporary wonders of the world. The first known passage by Europeans through the Grand Canyon was accomplished by the John Wesley Powell expedition in 1869.
