After a wonderfully filling and delicious breakfast of blue corn pancakes, homemade granola and fresh fruit (and more!), Jimmy and I set off on a tour of Kelly Place and the ruins.
Our first was an hour loop of the perimeter - including going down into two Kivas, looking at a cliff granary with cliff swallow nests above and several 100-yr-old buildings.
Blooming Banana Yucca.
Claret Cup Hedgehog Cactus.
Inside an unrestored Kiva.
Collared lizard (iguana family).
Gazing out toward Sleeping Ute Mountain.
Twisted juniper!
Ancient cliff ruins in background
We climbed up to them, but there wasn't much to see
except a lot of adobe bricks.
Overlooking the valley.
Then we took off for a two-hour R/T hike to the Canyon of the Ancients Monument cliff dwelling ruins on a trail well marked by cairns and dotted with lizards and blooming cactus. Again, it was fine to walk through and see the labor of people a thousand years ago still standing. Don't know if we would ever get tired of this. After dinner, we walked down the lane toward Road G, with the almost-full moon on the rise, happy to be here, happy to be alive.
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