Where trees turned to stone

Dave Perry and Lisa Feltrin/The Explorer, Reddish petrified logs lie below a bluff at Blue Mesa.

Where trees turned to stone

Dave Perry and Lisa Feltrin/The Explorer, The enormous petrified tree dubbed "Old Faithful" crumbled at its base decades ago. The National Park Service built a concrete support to restore the log, something it would not do today.

Where trees turned to stone

Dave Perry and Lisa Feltrin/The Explorer, Snow, purple hills and a petrified log bring vivid color.

Where trees turned to stone

Dave Perry and Lisa Feltrin/The Explorer, Trees were buried by mud, silt, debris and ash, then absorbed silica, which hardened in the exact shape of ancient trunks.

Where trees turned to stone

Dave Perry and Lisa Feltrin/The Explorer, A tiny stream of melting snow carries sediments among exposed petrified logs at the Crystal Forest.

Where trees turned to stone

Dave Perry and Lisa Feltrin, Petrified logs lie on red dirt in the Painted Desert Wilderness Area.

Stone soup project

Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Students at Painted Sky Elementary School collected 889 items for Catalina Community Services. Items collected over a month's time ranged from detergent to canned goods.

“The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone”

“The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone” will hit local theaters on March 1.

Living in luxury with the look of stone and slate flooring

Tile, stone business adds a Northwest location

Dave Perry/The Explorer, Kara Middendorf stood before a wall of tile and held a honey onyx sink at Tile Outlet Always in Stock.

Granite counters

Granite and stone counters might be a nice view in the kitchen and bathroom, but without proper care they can become a problem.

Amado Peña

Amado Peña is an artisan of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona. Peña and Hearth Stone Pottery are the festival's featured artists.

Noble Hops

The appetizer Banger Kabobs is a selection of two brats and one quite spicy Italian sausage. It comes with a sauerkraut salad and Noble Hops’ signature Champagne stone ground mustard.

Petrified forest 2

Turned to stone millions of years ago, huge multi-colored logs of petrified wood stand strong at Petrified Forest National Park, east of Holbrook, Ariz.

AZ Massage Center

Guang Li (Andy) rubs cream on the foot of co-worker, Yan Sailer, as he demonstrates one of the first steps of giving a foot massage. AZ Massage Center opened beginning of April and offers reflexology foot massages, hot stone massages, aromatherapy and personalized massage treatments.

AZ Massage Center

Guang Li (Andy) rubs cream on the foot of co-worker, Yan Sailer, as he demonstrates one of the first steps of giving a foot massage. AZ Massage Center opened beginning of April and offers reflexology foot massages, hot stone massages, aromatherapy and personalized massage treatments.