Last weekend, I went with my new friends Annie, Ann, and Sylvia (and Joya the dog!) to see petroglyphs. We hiked up a mostly non-existent trail to the top of a mesa. Since we were in the middle of nowhere, there were no other hikers or tourists anywhere, so we had the whole place to ourselves. It was amazing to be up close and personal with these messages left by the ancient Ancestral Pueblo people thousands of years ago.
These images were so vivid and they were everywhere! If you look closely, you can see snakes, lizards, birds, elk, and humans. Kokopelli is the image of a person playing what looks like a flute - I've heard it represents fertility. The most interesting petroglyph that I saw (which I did not take a picture of) was of a fish! Here's the view from the top of the mesa. There was a storm moving towards us and we could see a bunch of lightning strikes - the danger level was pretty high!
This morning, Stoops and I went to the Santa Fe Botanical Gardens. There was a special exhibit by Kevin Box called Origami in the Garden, which was very cool.
Overall, the garden was quite small, but it had plants that were either native to New Mexico or that grew very well in this arid climate.
Even though they looked like paper, the origami sculptures were made out of steel so they didn't melt in the rain. Since it was raining (it is very unusual to have a rainy day in Santa Fe - usually if there is rain, its only for a half hour in the afternoon) there were very few people in the gardens. We had it all to ourselves!
Rock Paper Sisscors!
These horses were the coolest!
Though this Bison looked just like it had been folded out of a giant sheet of paper.
Stoops found his spirit plant! Thumbs up :)
This was my spirit cactus:
I love living in a place where we can see the mountains from basically anywhere we are:
Santa Fe is the BEST!
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