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At Pinson Mounds State Park. Stairway to the top of Saul's mound, a Native American mound built during the woodland period in American history.
I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything quite like Antelope Canyon X. Walking around there almost felt sacrilegious, as if such a beautiful place deserved to be totally left alone and natural, and far from human involvement, even if we took great care to respect the environment. The stone walls of the canyon, despite being only carved by the powerful forces of erosion feel so delicate and artful. I felt drawn to be cautious wherever I was in the canyon for fear of disturbing the amazing forms and textures found in front of me. This formation in the rocks is called The Lady in Red. No matter what you see in the rocks, a visit here is sublime. My thanks to @canyon_x_tours for an amazing experience.
Across Utah and Arizona, you are in the Navajo Nation. In Navajo, sacred land is referred to as Diné Bikéyah. This land belongs to the people. Hopitutskwa, Pueblos, and Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) land is also found across these two states and at archeological sites and natural sites. It is an honor to see them.
Tumacácori National Historic Park. Unit no. 122 for me. Always sobering to see the remnants of colonialism and conversion.
️- tumacacori National Historic Park, as described by the NPS: Tumacácori sits at a cultural crossroads in the Santa Cruz River valley. Here O’odham, Yaqui, and Apache people met and mingled with European Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries, settlers, and soldiers, sometimes in conflict and sometimes in cooperation.
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In the beautiful wilderness, Pocahontas set out to collect food for her tribe.
With her knowledge of nature's gifts, she found fruits, herbs and skillfully caught fish from a nearby stream. Gratefully, she gathered the nourishing food, mindful of leaving no trace behind.
A photograph from another part of the marvelous Monument Valley, quite possibly my favorite part of the trip; capturing the scrub land and grasses together with the cotton wool clouds. Cloud formations we never get in England. Least ways not in London!!
Enjoy the rest of the weekend and Sunday.
At Pinson Mounds State Park. Stairway to the top of Saul's mound, a Native American mound built during the woodland period in American history.
saw this young lady chatting on her cell phone, sipping her Starbucks from this nook at the art store. Oddly, she was dressed as Pocahantas (Native American dress) in mid October.
At mile marker 13 just north of the Utah Arizona border and Monument Valley. From this point to the curve on the end of the straight highway is 2 miles
A stereo (3-D) view of an ancient ruin at Mesa Verde in southwest Colorado. This cross-eye (reverse) version can be viewed without a stereo viewer. To view, cross your eyes so the right eye views the left image and your left eye views the right image. The scene will appear in 3-D (Stereo).
By the spring of 2007, I had a few National Parks under my belt. I was a sophomore in High School and in Wind Ensemble. While I enjoyed playing music, I knew that it wasn’t my passion and that my interests were more aligned with what I did out of school and out in nature. That said, while I was in school, playing music was a fun activity and an engaging pastime that kept school tolerable. That all changed in the spring of 2007 when we got a new band director who, quite frankly, inspired me to be a teacher…. So that I could do the exact opposite of what he did in the classroom. Essentially, the man was a tyrant. Some of you reading this are probably smirking about this and remembering back 15 years ago to us being in the band room during this director’s reign of terror. Anyway- one of the only happy memories of band from 2007 was the piece “Sonoran Desert Holiday”, which we played for our concert competition. Despite being forced to live, breathe, sweat, and bleed over this piece, I loved it. Ron Howard’s orchestration devoted to the grandeur and drama of the American Southwest distracted me from the stress of band and brought my mind back to the wilds of Arizona which I loved and missed and fantasized about visiting again. Music, even though used as a tool of a horrible teacher to garner results, was still a balm for weariness. Paired with mental images of the desert and cacti and nature? ‘Sonoran Desert Holiday’ was the redeeming factor of that last year I spent in band. Despite all my travels since 2007, I hadn’t found myself back in the Sonoran Desert until this past year. And while the trip was already sweet and exciting for getting to see an incredible landscape of extreme diversity, it was also nice to return to a place that bolstered my spirits, even though my “visit” back in High School was through a totally different medium and through musical interpretation. Coupling those memories with the new experience of seeing the place that inspired the art elevated the adventure and even softened the harsh memories and stress from that time in my life. The desert, in all its forms, is healing, revitalizing and extreme in beauty and inspiration.
Shot on Kodak Ektachrome 64T film, Cross Processed; Canon A2E; scanned on Nikon CoolScan 4000 with a bad tendency to plug red in shadow sections.
The visibility was low, as the atmosphere was thick. Nevertheless, this was a sight to behold.
I witness a calving of this glacier. The sound of the ice cracking was louder than any thunder you could ever possibly imagine. An alarming explosion of sound that echoed for miles.
Calving is when chunks of ice break off at the terminus, or end, of a glacier. Ice breaks because the forward motion of a glacier makes the terminus unstable. We call these resulting chunks of ice “icebergs.”
Glacier ice is blue because the red (long wavelengths) part of white light is absorbed by ice and the blue (short wavelengths) light is transmitted and scattered. The longer the path light travels in ice, the more blue it appears.
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an American national park located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the area around Glacier Bay a national monument under the Antiquities Act on February 26, 1925. Subsequent to an expansion of the monument by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) enlarged the national monument by 523,000 acres (817.2 sq mi; 2,116.5 km2) on December 2, 1980, and created Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. The national preserve encompasses 58,406 acres (91.3 sq mi; 236.4 km2) of public land to the immediate northwest of the park, protecting a portion of the Alsek River with its fish and wildlife habitats, while allowing sport hunting.
Glacier Bay became part of a binational UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, and was inscribed as a Biosphere Reserve in 1986. The National Park Service undertook an obligation to work with Hoonah and Yakutat Tlingit Native American organizations in the management of the protected area in 1994. The park and preserve cover a total of 3,223,384 acres (5,037 sq mi; 13,045 km2), with 2,770,000 acres (4,328 sq mi; 11,210 km2) being designated as a wilderness area.
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Quite amazingly, this place is carved out by aeons of flash floods which the process still keep on happening now. The passage we're walking on now is where the turbulent water once swept through, drowning 11 visitors in 1997.
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Here is a shot of some cone flowers near the Cherokee Warrior Memorial at the Cherokee Nation's Headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The morning sun was just right in illuminating this cone flower in the foreground and also giving a nice glow to the ones in the background. The temperatures were in the lower 100s during my two-day visit to Indian Country. Needless to say, it was HOT!
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Pow wows are organized by a council that works for months before the event. At the pow wow, the emcee runs the ceremony events. The emcee works with the Arena Director to keep the conference or meeting running smoothly. These two individuals, along with the council, work hard to bring the people together for dance and fellowship in the circle.
The pow wow begins with the Grand Entry. This is when everybody enters the arena. This originally was a parade through the host pow wow town. Even today in some pow wows, these parades are still held. During the Grand Entry, everyone is asked to stand as the flags are brought into the arena. The flags carried generally include the U.S. Flag, Tribal Flags, the POW Flag, and Eagle Staffs of various tribes present. These are usually carried by veterans. American Indians hold the United States Flag in an honored position despite the horrible treatment received from this country. The flag has a dual meaning. First, it is a way to remember all of the Native Americans' ancestors that fought against this country. It is also the symbol of the United States which includes millions of Indians. The flag here also reminds people of those people who have fought for this country.
Following the veterans are other important guests of the pow wow including Tribal Chiefs, Princesses, Elders, and pow wow organizers. Next in line are the male dancers. The men are followed by the women dancers. Once everyone is in the arena, the song ends and a song is sung to honor the flags and the veterans. After a prayer, the dancing resumes, usually with a few round dances. After the round dances, intertribal dancing songs are performed and everyone at the ceremonial dances to the beat of the drum.
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13 miles from the Arizona border South of Mexican Hat, Utah
on the way to Monument Valley
Stopping point for Forrest Gump
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Might re-upload as flickr seems to do some sharpening...looks less edgy on photoshop than here.
Mesa Verde was such a unique national park to visit. Hidden in the landscape are these ancient cliff dwellings and several archeological sites of a people from long ago. Remarkably preserved for its age, it was a great experience to be up close to these structures that up until recently, I've only seen in magazines. Here's a look up into one of the structures.
Absolutely swamped with photos to process, many from my Utah trip and most recently from the Jones Beach Air-show. So still slowly catching up on all my contacts work from the last months while I was Flickr AWOL :D
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