Some Old Graffiti - February 20, 2018

I got up for a run this morning -- beautiful and calm day!  3 miles on the irrigation road.  Ran past an old adobe building that is working its way back to sand.  Sorry no picture.  Didn't think of it at the time. 

Spent most of the morning and 1/2 of the afternoon trying to figure out where to stay this weekend.  Try to get a spot in a park (hookups) in the Phoenix area at the last minute for the weekend or, in fact, for anytime from December through April 1st, everything is booked and none of it would have been cheap (at least $50 per night).  Steve finally found us a place at $30 a night in Buckeye so we booked it.  Now we can get on with life.

This afternoon we went to the petroglyphs.  Again the namesake for this BLM monument.  Here are some pictures I took.

Somebody was busy here

This entire bunch of boulders were COVERED in pictures.  If you can, zoom in and check them out.  It is as if a bunch of teenagers just decided to deface the landscape:  i.e. Grafitti


Can you see the detail of this human figure?


Lizard and a couple of suns?

These petroglyphs could have been written on these rocks as long ago as 1000 and 7000 BC.  Done by the ancestors of the Hohokam who are ancestors of the O'odham.  Still here -- amazing.  I am not  telling  anyone where it is because I want them to still be here when I come back in 7000 AD. 

Before cocktail hour I went for a ride with Steve in his little Suziki Samari.  We tried to find the mapped reservoir and only found a marsh.  Looking was fun though! Most of the area is cultivated alfalfa fields.  Lot of huge irrigation ditches and a lot of ugly man-made roads -- kinda made me glad I had forgotten my phone for pictures.

Tonight I got a couple of nice sunset pics. 

No "green flash" but pretty beautiful nevertheless.

Alpenglow

Nitey Nite!









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