The Penultimate Collection of Mesa Verde Pics
I just like using the word "penultimate".
Just a landscape shot I liked.
This cliff face is very unhappy. He had aspirations of becoming a mountain, but instead, he's just the side of a canyon. His mother is very disappointed in him.
Yucca 'n take the plant out of the desert, but yucca n't take the desert out of the plant.
A sad, burnt tree, trying to peer down under the overhang into the cliff dwelling below.
A paved path from the bottom of the stairs at this site to the ruins. The Ancient Puebloans climbed down the rock face without equipment, and we have to have stairs and a blacktop path. What a bunch of weenies we are. On top, you can see a forest of dead trees, these killed by a fire. Nothing but charcoal.
Another shot of the largest dwelling, The Cliff Palace, this time taken from across the canyon.
Taking a walking trail down into one of the canyons, you can see a lot more verdant version of the terrain here. It's a lot cooler, a lot wetter, and a lot greener. You can really start to get a feel for what it must have been like throughout the ruins before the climate changed and the stream dried into arroyos.
At the bottom of the train was another of the hundreds (thousands?) of ruins sites in the region.
And you know what comes after the penultimate post? That's right! The ultimate post!
Comments
I like the "line" of clouds in the top photo - like little puffs of steam out of a steam train!
HERPHERP
hehe, I'm just messing. Love the pictures (as usual), Sir Paxton!
Wow - maybe that face formed watching people try to descend the hard way!
Love the layering. Amazing photos as usual. Will the ultimate post be in a fortnight? (Har har, couldn't resist)