Springtime beauty

Late spring afternoon

Sunset starting to set over the Monument.

View from the hot tub grotto.

Little Kitty totally photo bombed this one.

Gateway, Highway 141, Hanging Flume

 View off the side of Highway 141 toward Gateway.

 The Dolores River with the Hanging Flume on the right cliff bank. It's about half way up. Here's a detail:

Night view of our backyard

Hanging in our hot tub with friends. A great way to spend a Friday night.

View of the hot-tub grotto from the second-story deck.

Stormy sunset

Spring

Trip to see cool things: Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Chaco Culture National Historical Park — if you ever thought you might wanna see it, go. You won't be disappointed ... you'll be blown away.

I wrote quite a bit over here about Chaco. One of its most impressive qualities is its size. These ruins are huge. Some buildings were originally four stories tall.

Four stories.

These Ancestral Puebloans were not rookie builders. Take a look:

Trip to see cool things: Navajo Moument Valley

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is magical and beautiful. It's a place that I want to visit again, but next time, I want to ride a horse (I know, I don't ride horses, but this is a place where you can forget about the things you can't do) and stay all day.

Truly peaceful and serene. I want to be there right now even if I can't have beer there.







While visiting the popular John Ford's Point and seeing the view pictured on our tour book, a tour bus arrived. Almost immediately a young man on a horse rode out to the point. For two bucks, I could have take the same picture. Instead I stole a quick snapshot from inside our car. You can see the horse and rider in the distance.

A trip to see cool stuff: Grand Canyon Edition

Over here, I wrote about how we ended up driving through the southwest to see cool stuff. Our first stop was Vegas.

Our second: Grand Canyon.

It indeed qualifies as cool ... super, blow-my-mind-with-its-awesomeness cool.












You might notice (well, you definitely will notice once I point it out) that I'm wearing a necklace in this picture.

Yes, that's normal for many women. It is not normal for me.

For years now, I've been fighting the "it's nice, but it makes me feel like I'm trying to be something I'm not" feeling about wearing necklaces. Then while looking for nice Navajo pottery, Margaret saw this green turquoise necklace and I tried it on ... and never took it off.

You will likely see me wearing this necklace every day for the rest of my life. Because that's how I roll.