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Tijeras, New Mexico
This young lady's name is Dakota. She has a pet lizard, which is actually wild. It lives in a rock pile behind her camper. She can go out to the rock pile and hold out her hand and the lizard will jump into her hand.
This lizard is a whip tail, he has lost part of it's tail. You can see that it is growing back on.
Finaly got a picture of a Roadrunner.
Kay and I drove out to the Petroglyph National Monument which was west of Albuquerque. This picture is of the visitor center.
One of the strange cactus that are in this area.
have to look this one up.
This one is called snake weed. I have no idea why, but I looked very close to make sure it wasn't a true name.
Steps leading up to some of the Petroglyphs. This made it easy for old people like me.
Long ago people discovered that chipping away the rocks thin desert varnish revealed a lighter gray beneath and left a lasting mark. American Indians believe these images are as old as time. Archeologists estimate that most of the images were made 400 to 700 years ago by an ancestors of today's native people. Some images may be as much as 2,000 to 3,000 years old.
The steps made it easy to see some of the petroglyphs.
I found this rock very intresting, with the different layers of stone in it.
More snake weed.
The West Mesa, a 17-mile-long table of land west of the Rio Grande, emerged about 200,000 years ago when lava flowed from a large crack in the Earth's crust. Layer upon layer of lava flowed over and around existing land forms. Eruptions contintued from isolated points along the fissure, forming the cones we see today. Over time, softer sediments on the mesa's eastern edge eroded, leaving a jagged-edged escarpment strewn with basalt boulders that broke away from the lava caprock. This is the natural setting for the petroglyphs you see today.
Whip Tail Lizard
I liked the moss on this rock.
Kay enjoying the warm late summer day walk.
A view from a far at the rocks.
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