four corner ruins and rock art

Hovenweep National Monument . built between 1200 & 1300 CE

the sleeping Ute

Shiprock from a distance . 119km (74 miles)

oasis

desert bighorn sheep

the poetic and untimely demise of maria’s red hat

desert flotsam

Lowry Ruin resident

Cliff Palace . Mesa Verde National Park

Spider Woman Rock . Canyon de Chelly

Navajo National Monument

city stop

back on the road…

to the bottom of the Paleozoic ocean . 541 to 251.9 million years ago

snail on the trail

the path to newspaper rock

San Rafael Swell pictographs . 2ooo+ years old

Locomotive Point

Head of Sinbad . well-preserved pictograph panels dating to approx. 1ooo CE

was it all a dream? is it?

2012 Utah

This is installment 3 in my 12 month series revisiting some favorite magical places
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10 years gone . the US revisited
From mountains to prairie, oceans to petroglyphs…
the southwest and the wide open road.
Come take a look with me.