Day 41 - V-Bar-V Ranch, Montezuma Well

Javelina happiness - right in our backyard.

Pretty much the same view as above. Best I can do. But, you get some idea of what a Javelina looks like. Turns out it's not a pig. It's more like a hippopotamus. I'm not making this up.

Fall has arrived at the V Bar V Ranch. Can you spot the "Cowboy Kitchen"?

Afraid this is all that's left of the ranch house - someone had a ton of fun making this chimney though.

This is what is meant by high hanging fruit.

I'm pretty sure these are persimmons.

The local rock art deer.

The petroglyphs on site at the ranch are absolutely incredible.

These look like the oldest petrogyphs on site - and they are more abstract than the Sinagua work, so they're even more mysterious.

I believe these petroglyphs are very modern, even 20th century. They don't look eroded like the rest, and the tool used to peck the rockface was very sharp and pointy. I think it was actually a nail.

These are the real deal, made by the mysterious Sinagua people. This is the densest panel of petroglyphs in Arizona.

Our overcast day enhaces all the textural features of the surrounding land.

Ranch trees - textural enhancement.

Some trees on the ranch have theses gorgeous red - orange berries. We note that they are untouched - not one creature has foraged them - so we best not either!

Wendy is still photographing vortexes. In the rain.

Montezuma Well's current migrant population.

The altogether amazing, and unusually misnamed Montezuma Well, which is neither a well, nor did it ever have anything to do with Montezuma. It is a deep lake fed by a powerful underwater perennial spring, and it has an underground drain so its level never changes. I wouldn't make this up. There are Sinagua residences (the high-rent district, of course) built into the walls opposite, just above the beautiful tree.

Guess this is the low rent residential area - complete with advertisement for an 1888 era local photographer. Sigh. The black markings on the upper rock are from cookng and warming firepits.

It's quite the descent from the rim to the water level.

Emma Sherpa Brown Sock leads the way to coffeetime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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