Despite the apparent dryness, there were flowers.

Looking east and a little north.

Patricia and I both enjoyed the trip. It was very windy near the edge of the cliffs.

You can see that there was still snow on Santa Fe Baldy in early June.

Imagine that you are standing on the edge of the cliff top and you are going to descend. One reason this path looks a little funny is the holes you see in it. To get water to the land below, they channelled water down the path and the holes are like little resevoirs.

While Patricia was visiting Cape Cod, I drove down to Albuquerque and visited the Petroglyph National Monument. In the park there are more than 20,000 petroglyphs pecked into the volcanic rock. The rock comes from the 5 volcanoes in the area--all dormant, I hope.

You can see some of the volcanic rock and the remnents of at least 3 volcanoes.

Compare this petroglyph with the some of the ones from Puye and notice that this one is completely filled in.

This one almost looks like a skeleton, but I think it is really two pictures.

No one knows why this place was chosen to create all these petroglyphs. Most of them, according to the guide book, were created between 1300 and 1680 (the year of the Pueblo Revolt). Some, however, are from much earlier.

This one may be a four-pointed star and not a cross.

I'm on the Boca Negra trail and you can see that I had to climb a little from the parking lot. At this point I am just over a mile high--still lower than Santa Fe.

There are a lot of surfaces on which to work. This is all volcanic rock and this kind of rock is much harder than the tuff at Puye.

This is on the trail called "Macaw." Macaws aren't native here. Did someone bring an image (or a real bird) back from a trip to the far south?

I would really like to know what, if anything, this signified.

Some of the drawings are very simple.