Sonya Rose Atkinson's video: Valley of Fire Nevada State Park

Visited a rare beauty, Nevada's oldest and largest state park, Valley of Fire. A popular filming location (Transformers, Star Trek Generations, The Professionals, Criss Angel Mindfreak, Domino, Total Recall, Cherry 2000, etc); namely car commercials. Forces within the earth have been powerful enough to cause 1,000s of feet of surface rock to fold, break, and in some areas push several miles from their original location, once on the bottom of a deep ocean basin. Today, erosion has worn away the top of the great fold, exposing the sharply angled layers of rock and creating numerous canyons—of red, orange, and yellow striking sandstone formations. I enjoyed my visit to this vast desert—taking in red sand dunes, desert scrubs, and beautiful green creosote bushes, 3,000 year old Indian Petroglyphs, and so much more. And was surprised to hear the park was dedicated on my birthday, Easter, March 26 yet back in the 1930s. Please check out my new poetry video from Valley of Fire (posted on Easter 2009) called "Valley Heart" ... if you wish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbk2lxJi8QM