July 2019 - Four Corners
This is a combination of a few side trips while spending a bit of time in the four corners area. First was the "House on Fire", a ruined cliff dwelling in Utah that has a cool look when the light hits the rock just right. After that comes Newspaper Rock, a large collection of petryglyphs also in Utah. After that is Shiprock, New Mexico, followed by the Blue Mountain in Utah. The final bunch of pictures come from a nature reserve on the Animas river in Farmington, New Mexico.
This is a combination of a few side trips while spending a bit of time in the four corners area. First was the "House on Fire", a ruined cliff dwelling in Utah that has a cool look when the light hits the rock just right. After that comes Newspaper Rock, a large collection of petryglyphs also in Utah. After that is Shiprock, New Mexico, followed by the Blue Mountain in Utah. The final bunch of pictures come from a nature reserve on the Animas river in Farmington, New Mexico.
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| The house on fire, set up in the rocks | House on fire, with some color processing to really bring out the flames! | |
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| With no color adjustment | ||
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| Getting those fire pics | ||
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| Nestled in a very bright canyon | The view of the canyon from the ruins | Some handprint petroglyphs on a ledge around the corner |
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| Indian paintbrush on our way out to the house on fire | Another ruined site in the same canyon | Newspaper rock: full of petroglyphs |
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| Some things are really clearly identifiable, others are a bit of a mystery! | ||
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| Shiprock, much larger than anything else in the area | ||
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| A shiprock with two baby shiprocks following it | The Blue Mountain | The views into the valley and plateau below |
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| The bears ears | ||
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| The yucca plants were all flowering | Thick groves of aspens up the mountain | |
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| Wildflowers in full bloom | A horny toad! | Butler wash. There was a cliff village here at one point, but it's totally ruined now. |
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| High desert | The Milky Way out in the mountains. Wow! | |
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| A female black-chinned hummingbird | It's flower time! | |
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| A male black-chinned hummingbird, showing why they are so named | A black-capped chickadee | A lesser goldfinch |
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| A spotted towhee, looking a bit ruffled | A bushtit | A whole flock of bushtits was making its way through the trees |
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| Really fluffed up! | Cool to see a skunk, but really glad to have a lot of zoom on the lens | |
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| A friendly deer |