I didn't spend very much time here in the Four Corners, and most of you didn't get to visit me here, so I thought I'd share some pictures of my home.
This is Mesa Verde as seen from the pasture of one of our clients in Mancos, Colorado. I spent a gorgeous spring day in this field - one of the bonuses of my job. I will spare you the photos of the lake we made when someone played a accidental game of "underground utility locater" with the backhoe and the client's irrigation line...
Sadly, the only time I have visited Mesa Verde in the past not-quite-two years was to clean up an asphalt spill at a construction site in the park. That has fairly well been the story of my life recently!
This is Mesa Verde as seen from the pasture of one of our clients in Mancos, Colorado. I spent a gorgeous spring day in this field - one of the bonuses of my job. I will spare you the photos of the lake we made when someone played a accidental game of "underground utility locater" with the backhoe and the client's irrigation line...
Sadly, the only time I have visited Mesa Verde in the past not-quite-two years was to clean up an asphalt spill at a construction site in the park. That has fairly well been the story of my life recently!
This is Sleeping Ute Mountain, near Cortez, Colorado. The Ute legend tells that he was a great warrior chief who helped fight against evil ones, and during the battle his feet formed the mountains and valleys. The chief was wounded and while resting he fell into a deep sleep. He wears a different colored blanket for each season - white in winter, green in summer, red in the fall, and six inches of thick clay mud in the spring. No, wait, the last one is my truck, not the mountain. The highest point, towards the left, is the chief's crossed arms over his chest. His head is to the left of that, not terribly visible in this photo.
This is a photo of ruins at Hovenweep, in Utah. I was standing down in a shallow part of the wash when I took it. Hovenweep is a very nice place to see southwest ruins - good preservation, a relatively short hike (2 miles to do the entire trail), not much elevation change, and a nice visitor center - but my favorite part is the drive on Montezuma County Road G (otherwise known as a McRoad) from Cortez to Aneth, Utah. The scenery is gorgeous, and it's a beautiful road to travel by motorcycle.
This is our Snoopy Rock. There are a lot of Snoopy Rocks (or Snoopies Rock) in this time zone, but I think ours is a particularly good one. This one's near Shiprock. Rumor has it that the little bump on his head is Woodstock, but I am pretty sure that it is just a wart, and that Woodstock has gone off to find some water.
This is an important landmark when one is driving back to Farmington from Gallup after a long day of installing monitoring wells or replacing the vacuum pump on a diesel recovery system, because it lets one know that it is time to start paying attention, so as not to miss the turn onto N36, which is the shortcut to Farmington that takes you around Shiprock instead of through it. Not that there's anything wrong with Shiprock, but when one is trying to escape the deep, sucking vortex that is Gallup, the last thing one wants to do is slow down for a town...
This is Molas Lake... at least, we were pretty sure it was the lake. Molas Lake was somewhere around there, according to the sign, and this was the only flat, tree-less area nearby. Molas Lake is at the top of Molas Pass in the San Juan Mountains, north of Durango, Colorado. There's a great Indian-Tibetan- Himalyayan restaurant in Durango, on Main and 10th... um, right, we went up to Molas to go snowshoeing. It was rather a lot of fun. And the lunch buffet at the Indian restaurant was delicious, as always.
This is our Snoopy Rock. There are a lot of Snoopy Rocks (or Snoopies Rock) in this time zone, but I think ours is a particularly good one. This one's near Shiprock. Rumor has it that the little bump on his head is Woodstock, but I am pretty sure that it is just a wart, and that Woodstock has gone off to find some water.This is an important landmark when one is driving back to Farmington from Gallup after a long day of installing monitoring wells or replacing the vacuum pump on a diesel recovery system, because it lets one know that it is time to start paying attention, so as not to miss the turn onto N36, which is the shortcut to Farmington that takes you around Shiprock instead of through it. Not that there's anything wrong with Shiprock, but when one is trying to escape the deep, sucking vortex that is Gallup, the last thing one wants to do is slow down for a town...
This is Molas Lake... at least, we were pretty sure it was the lake. Molas Lake was somewhere around there, according to the sign, and this was the only flat, tree-less area nearby. Molas Lake is at the top of Molas Pass in the San Juan Mountains, north of Durango, Colorado. There's a great Indian-Tibetan- Himalyayan restaurant in Durango, on Main and 10th... um, right, we went up to Molas to go snowshoeing. It was rather a lot of fun. And the lunch buffet at the Indian restaurant was delicious, as always.
Very classy-looking! You may've heard, we're enjoying the snowiest winter in years; we broke prior records for snowfalls. (Some of our townsfolks are beginning to complain - we're loving it.) I'll be reading with interest....
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