Santa Fe 2010

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Carolyn, Kathleen, and Cindy	Here's Kathleen bundled up. We went for an early morning walk around Santa Fe and saw lots of outdoor art, and snow!	This guy should have ducked, when that snowball came in.	A snowy hillside along Paseo de Peralta
Large bison statues covered in snow	A statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe	A dancing monk, in front of the cathedral	On Saturday, we drove out of Santa Fe. Here are Carolyn and Cindy at the San Ildefonso pueblo.
The "big tree" in the pueblo's plaza. Still too cold for leaves on this old cottonwood.	The guy in the visitor's center said people like to touch the big tree, so Kathleen did.	Carolyn and Cindy made a friend of this old dog who had been sleeping outside a pottery shop.	Cloud shadows over the mesas behind the pueblo
The pueblo's church	The pueblo's kiva, where the men hold ceremonies	San Ildefonso is famous for black pottery. Most of the houses had kilns right outside.	Antlers on an adobe wall
Driving to Bandelier National Monument, we stumbled across the perfect hiking opportunity in the Tsankawi section of the park.	A view of the snow-topped mountain in the distance	The trail required ladder climbing and "rock scrambling," according to the sign at the entrance. Here are Carolyn and Cindy.	Centuries of walking have worn narrow paths into the rock.
Carolyn on the path up to the top of the mesa	The views were spectacular in every direction.	The clouds were beautiful.	We had to climb up (and down!) some very steep ladders.
The view from the top of the mesa	A line of stones from the foundation of an ancient building	More of the crumbled foundation	A group of petroglyphs
A former cliff dweling	Petroglyphs inside one of the caves	"Take a picture of my hand!", Cindy said.	Carolyn and Cindy above a cave that has been partially bricked in.
Kathleen and Cindy	Cindy makes a quick exit from a cave. Notice her pretty new turquoise ring and earrings!	More evidence of cliff dwellings in the rock face across the way	Cindy spotted this human shaped hole in the cliff. Ancient Indians must have had tiny heads.
This part of the path had been worn deeply into the rock.	Further along the path	Another group of petroglyphs	Cindy pointed this one out in particular.
Flowers growing in a crevice	After our strenuous hike, we did an easier walk at Bandolier. This is looking up at the cliff dwellings from the valley floor.	Here's a shot of the ruins of the pueblo in the valley. The pueblo and cliffs were inhabited at the same time.	We posed by one of the ladders set up for cave explorers.
A shot from near the "long house" looking down the valley. Some of the trees had new spring leaves.	These flowering trees were really fragrant.	A shot of the ruins of the long house that was built into the cliff.	A preserved section of painting that would have been inside a dwelling originally
Here we are, after breakfast on Sunday. The place across the street, Cowgirl BBQ, is where we had dinner the night before.

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