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The beauty of Bryce Canyon National Park. It is no surprise that the Indians believed that these were creatures that were turned to stones.

The legend of Bryce Canyon was explained to a park naturalist in 1936 by Indian Dick, a Paiute elder who then lived on the Kaibab Reservation:

"Before there were any Indians, the Legend People, To-when-an-ung-wa, lived in that place. There were many of them. They were of many kinds – birds, animals, lizards and such things, but they looked like people. They were not people. They had power to make themselves look that way. For some reason the Legend People in that place were bad; they did something that was not good, perhaps a fight, perhaps some stole something….the tale is not clear at this point. Because they were bad, Coyote turned them all into rocks. You can see them in that place now all turned into rocks; some standing in rows, some sitting down, some holding onto others. You can see their faces, with paint on them just as they were before they became rocks. The name of that place is Angka-ku-wass-a-wits (red painted faces). This is the story the people tell."

Picture of the bay in Catalina island from a hill in Avalon. You can see a cruise ship dwarf all other sail boats in the harbor.

This is what remains of a child's tricycle in the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug 6th 1945.

This exhibit can be seen at the Memorial Park Museum.

Just looking at this picture can make you fat... :)

Was wondering what was eating all the leaves. Looking under one of the leaves, I found the culprits resting before they would eat up the entire leaf....