Chiracahua National Monument, AZ

 Chiracahua  is a most interesting landscape, the hoodoo central of Arizona. It lies in the southeastern part of the state,  not so arid as the remainder, but a grassy vast expanses of flatland, and distant rocky outcrops, hills, and mountains used by the Apache for refuge from the elements, from enemies, and  an elevated place to pray.

The Native American Apache People were forced to live in this torturous maze to survive the loss of the more productive lands by the aggression of waring neighbors, early white settlers,  and  the U.S. Government, who eventually took their land and destroyed their culture.

Golden eagles are common place here where they sometimes perch a top the electric poles. Sunsets are Golden across a Big country. The hustle of a crowded society does not exist here, only peace, the sound of a gentle wind, and silence.

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/apache/chiricahua.htm

Canyon De Chelly National Monument, AZ

Words are fast examples for long roads and hard years.
The world is a good teacher.

Grand Canyon, South Rim

Imagine how big is hope.

Canyon DeChelly , AZ

I have a good friend here in a guy by the name of Adam Teller. He's a very knowledgeable and personable credit to the Navajo People and his beloved ancestral home at Antelope House in the canyon. He is a kind, gentle, and wise man I've learned more from in a couple of days than I thought possible. Please remember Adam, his Father Ben Teller, and Antelope House Tours on your trip to Canyon DeChelly. 
http://www.canyondechelly.net/

Chiricaua Mountains / Land of Cochise

This was the last stronghold of the  Great native American Apache Chief Cochise. Greatly out numbered and out gunned, Cochise and the strongest of his warriors held up in the most remote of theses mountains, where they were intentionally starved and  shot like dogs for title to their land. 

 '' When I was young I walked all over this country, east and west, and saw no other people than the Apaches. After many summers I walked again and found another race of people had come to take it." Words of Cochise   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiricahua_Mountains

Tuzigoot National Monument

Tuzigoot (Crooked Waters) Sinagua Indian Ruins in the Verde River valley of Arizona.

https://www.nps.gov/tuzi/index.htm 

Universe

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." Albert Einstein

Photo- Hopi Teacher and the same basic lesson
 .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_people

Pertified Forest National Park

There was once a vast forest here in the Petrified Forest and Painted desert, (a vast expanse of bad land in north eastern AZ).

In the desolation and eerie silence petrified wood and dinosaur bones are exposed by wind and rain. At a certain time of year when rare rains fall, the desert is transformed into a painted landscape by flowers, but it's hard for a simple mind to imagine, having not seen.

https://www.nps.gov/pefo/index.htm

Mitten Rocks , Monument Valley

In the moonlight, from the public campground.