Solar Calendar Pictograph

Young man,

If you cherish a special idea rightfully yours, hold it close to your heart. Keep it secret if you must. Nurture it, scrutinize it, purify it, educate it, keep it safe all your life. Until which time you will know_  and only then give it purpose, make it fly. Don't let them kill your dream.

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Solar calender pictographs are few and far between in the rock art of the desert Southwestern U.S... Standard pigments used in pictographs include red iron oxide, charcoal, white clay, ground malachite, and azurite mixed with saliva or  vegetable extracts to make a paste.

Photo By Paula R.

These basic concoctions have endured millennium beneath alcoves and cliff overhangs protected from the elements, conveying their messages across time. 

These people were far more advanced in their understanding of the patterns of the Earth and its seasons than we. They understood the power of written words, and that men lived within them. They personally knew death, and life giving sustenance, thus called them by rightful name. They appreciated the simple design of life and fluently spoke its pure language.

Canyon Pintado National Historic District  -  Sun Dagger Site
Rangely, Colorado

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%B1on_Pintado

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

I just stumbled upon this path, you see, it appeared as good as any so I took it,




 and then it forked and forked again, while little did I know, I had walked so far, as the time passed so quickly.


One day I happened by chance upon where I started, and stood there



just looking down, same place, same path . . . different man.

Rio Grand River, Boquillas Canyon

Big Bend National Park TX 
http://www.nps.gov/bibe/index.htm

Canyon De Chelly National Monument, AZ

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

Chaco Culture National Historic Park

This is by far the largest and most well preserved Anasazi Indian Ruin in the U.S. Petroglyphs line the canyon walls. No one really knows why such an extensive site was abandoned.

There is a campground here for campers, but be aware of the twenty mile road which will be impassable should it by some slim chance rain.

There is also an observatory with official guided viewing in the dark night sky of the New Mexico desert. The Anasazi were astronomers, seeing here is often good.

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/

Santa Elena Canyon

Rio Grand River, Big Bend National Park

Turbines, Hoover Dam

These are inside the dam, far below the water level. This place is so clean you can eat off the floor.

Morrow Point, Black Canyon Of The Gunnison

Morrow point was named after an early Christian minister who came here to converse with God and contemplate his Sunday service. It is not a hike for the faint hearted. The bone jarring road to the trail head in those days was sufficient to discourage any preacher or goat unworthy of his salt. The winds hear at the point search the heart, speak like thunder, 2700 hundred feet above the Gunnison river straight down.

Copper Canyon, Mexico "El Chepe Train"

Aboard the El Chepe train From Chihuahua to Los Mochis, one can experience Old Mexico and some of the indigenous peoples who live like they did hundreds of years ago. Their simple lifestyle conserves natural resources, reflects a reverence for the earth, and allows for it's longevity.

Tarahumara

Tarahumara ladies well dressed in colorful clothing often hand made.

Copper Canyon, Mexico

In the chilly morning air, one can see chimney smoke rising from nowhere, as the simple homes of the Tarahumara People, built of native rock and wood blend into the landscape. The sounds of laughter and the chopping of wood echo in the hills and canyons, yet from a distance the vista seems uninhabited.

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

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

"This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that way. But in course of time the succession was broken, and therefore the science as it is appears to be lost." Bhagavad Gita 4.2

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