This is the Petrified Forest - less than an hour's drive from my home. In the early 20th Century, the ground was covered with petrified wood. Visitors in the 1930s said that it glittered in the sunlight like a bowl full of jewels. That part of the park was called the Rainbow Forest. Over the years, people have stolen rocks from the park measured by the tons. Every year the park receives a few of those stones back with letters of apologies from people of all ages suffering from guilty consciences. But that is a drop in the bucket to what is taken. I visit the park at least twice a year and I can tell you, there is not a bowl full of jewels in sight. It's a wonderful place to visit for the palentology and the archeology alone. But it's a shadow of what it was. I feel sad that people are so selfish. Didn't they know they were stealing from themselves? "The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein." Pslams 24:1