I think he was a frog.

There were many different costumes.

This one reminded us of one of the girl's costumes.

A party atmosphere

An event for all ages

On Wednesday we drove from Taos to Santa Fe over the "High Road." On the way we stopped to take pictures of the Truchas Peaks.

We also stopped at the Sanctuario in Chimayo. This used to be a family chapel.

Apparently, many people come here in the hopes of being cured of physical problems. There are many crutches and shoes left behind.

This is the colorful altar-piece.

This is one of many pictures left behind in what seems to be a tribute or offering.

On Thursday we went to Bandelier National Monument. This area was covered, about a million years ago, by as much as 1000 feet of volcanic ash called tuff. Some of the resulting stone is soft and erosion has carved it into interesting shapes.

Native Americans lived on the canyon floor and build dwellings into the sides of the cliffs.

Patricia took this pictures of what appears to be two people turned into stone.

Here are some of the carved-out dwellings. All they had were stone implements, so you can imagine how hard this must have been.

They also built lots of small rooms from mud bricks. You can see that these have been arranged around a central area of some kind. What looks like a hole at right center used to be an underground kiva which was used for religious ceremonies.

This was once a "picture" hidden inside a dwelling. At some point it was plastered over.

After we left Bandelier, we drove past Los Alamos to see a collapsed caldera. This is the place from which all the ash originated.

This is what remains of the caldera. It is about 14 miles across at its widest point. For comparison purposes, the last major eruption here was about 500 times larger than Mt. St. Helens in the 1980s.

The Cathedral of Santa Fe