Painted Desert in Winter
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Painted Desert in Winter
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Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture
Description
The Painted Desert is a United States desert of badlands in the Four Corners area from the Grand Canyon National Park into the Petrified Forest National Park. Much of the area within the Petrified Forest National Park is protected as the Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area within the Navajo Nation.
The Painted Desert extends roughly from Cameron-Tuba City southeast to past Holbrook and the Petrified Forest National Park. The desert is about 120 miles long by about 60 miles wide, making it roughly 7,500 square miles
Owing to the strong rain shadow of the Mogollon Rim, the Painted Desert has a cold desert climate with hot, dry summers and cold, though virtually snow-free, winters. The annual precipitation is the lowest in northern Arizona and in many places is lower even than Phoenix.
Image copyright 2014 Jon Burch Photography
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February 16th, 2014
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Pat Goltz
Beautiful colors! You captured the colors very well, and also the snow on the sides of some hills.
Nancy Carol Photography
EXCELLENT ARIZONA ARTISTRY! Thank you for sharing with us your wonderful work of Arizona Art that has been proudly presented on the Home Page Gallery of the group, "ART OF ARIZONA". If you wish, you may archive it permanently or promote it further in the Discussions Tabs titled, "Oct/Nov/Dec 2023 Features."
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