Day 53 - Pioneertown Mountain Preserve: Indian Loop
Wendy celebrates the reopening of the Indian Loop - it was destroyed by floods a couple of years ago.
Wendy finds a rock. Wait a minute!! Wendy finds a Fake Rock!!
The Fake Rock. It is made of some kind of very tough material, clearly designed to withstand the heat and stress of atmospheric re-entry. Note the machined bolt-hole, where the original landing mechanism was attached. We note the park rangers give this thing a wide birth. It also makes that low thrumming sound. We are starting to wonder if the "flood" story for this trail is some kind of coverup.
Are you lookin' at me?
The very carefully adapted desert seal.
Someone decided to add extra embeishment to the desert seal/
The Raging Creek Crossing. Part of the "flood" cover story.
A rangatonga pops out on the trailside to greet us. They are very happy and social creatures.
The seldom seen desert chicken - in full mating regalia - on his command post.
Some are just grumpy.
A triple swoop in the skies above. Wildfire's newest evolution of rapid air surveillance jets disquised as clouds.
Recent rains have spurred the bloom of many desert flora.
Wendy's next Big Find. We have been here many times in the distant past, and have never noticed these pictographs. They appear to show the double-helix DNA structure of something Very Big, and there appears to be instructions on how to make one. The low thrumming sound is still audible.
Then, the upside-down rainbows suddenly appear. It has been many years since our last sightings of these in Sedona, and that occasion marked The Rise of the Sentient Lichen, among other things. Where are the Black Helicopters?
The Moon Rises. The Tympani start their pounding crescendo.
Desert command post.
More unusual sky features. There is a pattern here today.
The road to home.
Sunset from our Yucca patio.
The other direction.
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