Another mine entrance. It only goes back a few feet.
One of the mine headquarters buildings abandoned in the early 1900s.
A spring fruit.
This picture is for Noah. It shows goats and llamas at the Turquoise Museum and Petting Zoo in Cerrillos.
This doesn't look like much now, but the San Marcos Pueblo San Marcos Pueblo, inhabited between AD 1300-1680, was a major trade center for the region. Roomblocks with more tha a hundred rooms are located around a central plaza, containing kivas (Nelson 1914). The inhabitants of San Marcos may have constructed a reservoir for irrigation. Around AD 1425, the population increased as dispersed communities aggregated in larger settlements to conserve water during this drought period.
After the Spanish entrada, San Marcos became an important paraje, or campsite, on one of the main routes of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
After the Spanish entrada, San Marcos became an important paraje, or campsite, on one of the main routes of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.
The pueblo was abandoned after the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. The people of San Marcos joined the Navajo and Apache in refugee communities in Potrero Viejo. The Keresan inhabitants fled to Acoma, and others to Hopi.
Pottery found (dating from AD 1350–1475) includes many glaze polychromes from La Cieneguilla Pueblo, Pueblo Largo, and Espinosa Ridge.
Karl and Marlene came for an all-too-short visit on their way back to Gilbert. We took them out to Pecos for a quick look around.
The mission church at the Pecos National Monument.
Marlene and Patricia.
Looking down into a kiva. This kiva is right next to the convento.
Some of the old beams in the church walls.
Patricia and Karl
One of the local residents
Marlene and Karl