Sunday, May 10: It is Sunday morning and I am missing my friends at St. Marks. I feel as if I have been in church all week. Chaco Canyon is about as spiritual as it gets and the beautiful Great Kiva at Aztec Ruins makes you want to sit in the Presence all day. It was reconstructed in the 30’s and the Pueblo still use it for ceremonies. It is deep and cool underground and the silted windows and columns are designed to reflect the progress of the sun during the day. There is always a beam of light illuminating the darkness.
If you are my FB friend, you saw the happy, happy photos of Butch on his fishing trip on the San Juan River. I went along but did not fish. The river is beautiful, the day was cool and bright, and the fish were biting. It was so much fun!
We traveled on west and north to Blanding UT. Yesterday we toured Natural Bridges National Monument and did the easiest hike to Katchina Bridge. There is a slot canyon there and the walls were stunning. Believe it or not, we had rain here yesterday! As a result, we could not do some of the other hikes (flash flooding is a danger if there are thunderstorms anywhere in the basin).
The thunderheads were rolling across a brilliant blue sky creating an amazing effect on the lighting in the canyons. Some areas were lit with shafts of sunlight while others where silhouetted against dark cliffs. There is snow on the mountains in the far background which occasionally glints in the sun. Breathtaking!!
In the late afternoon we visited the museum and ruins at Edge of the Cedars State Park. They have an extensive and impressive collection there. We are leaving today, probably to go west on UT 95 to Capitol Reef National Park.
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