A cottonwood forest at Pueblo Montaño on the banks of the Rio Grande, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

We spent two-and-a-bit days in Monument Valley. I’d’ve loved for it to be two-and-a-bit months, but at the same time being somewhere so beautiful is mentally exhausting…it needs something ordinary and mundane to give the brain some perspective. Maybe that’s why there’s the gift shop in the visitors’ centre…Monument Valley shot glasses and [...]

They’re not at all the same photos as I would’ve taken in Glasgow…they’re entirely different species of weeds. And we don’t have roadrunner feathers in Scotland.

Petroglyph National Monument has been estimated to contain around 25,000 petroglyphs, mostly carved 500-700 years ago, and a small number up to 4,000 years ago. They range from weird and wonderful to cute and funny, but also often pass into barely distinguishable. Erich von Däniken notes some of these petroglyphs as evidence that earth [...]

Phew – that was fun.
I started this journal shortly after my Milwaukee friends came to visit in 2003 and many of my early entries had photos from that trip. One of those friends is an artist, primarily a painter – http://www.noraboedeker.com/
Anyway, she has some of her paintings in a gallery in Wisconsin and thought [...]

Spent a wonderful couple of days in Sedona, then a wonderful couple of days hiking at Grand Canyon, now I’m in Kayenta just south of Monument Valley…and I’m having a wonderful time. Spotted the theme yet?
The desert is astonishing…at least to someone used to rainy Scotland.
Here are a few Monument Valley pictures…

I’m currently in Sedona, Arizona and I unexpectedly have Internet access, so I thought I’d post and show that I’m still alive. Sorry for not reading my friends page nor catching up with email.
Here’s a random picture from today. I hadn’t expected the desert to be so red. Nor so green. [...]