One of our wedding photos!

This makes me really want to get an Iphone! Our friend Elysha sent us this pic, love love love it! I pretty much love all of our photos so far though. More shall be posted soon!

Nifty.

I think this was a scraper?



I'm not sure what this was, too thick for a projectile point.

historic trash.

you kinda gotta zoom in, but this granary is at a popular view point. Just noticed it for the first time.

Finally saw these granaries! Also directly below a popular viewpoint.

Can you tell? This is a ruin.

So you don't get the wrong idea, anything we picked up we put back in exactly the same spot in the same layer of soil as it was originally found. When you remove an artifact it loses the information archeologists can get solely from the location the artifact was found. Tim and I don't have a secret stash of flakes and pot sherds (shards of glass, sherds of pottery). Just pictures of the cool ones.

Happy Hiking!

Last week's snowfall

this is a picture of the prints a raven left while taking off, you can totally tell, right?

We are expecting more snow to fall today, tonight and tomorrow, yipee. I'm not exactly excited for it. However, this is what it makes the canyon look like when it does snow. It is quite the veritable wonderland. Last week our road got shut down due to poor driving conditions, and this week the forecast is for more snow. I think it's going to miss us simply because everyone's ready for it.

Backpacking trip down to Horseshoe Mesa

 Abby pointing at a benchmark, 1200 feet below the south rim!

 Caves on Horseshoe Mesa

 Weird.

 We walked out to the tip of this thing.

 gnoming

 I LOVE this agave.

I also love that this tree decided to crack open a rock, slide a root down, then move over to another crack in a rock.

I also really like this tree, the squiggliness of it.

This is my favorite picture of us getting to the top. It's snowing. We started hiking up in t-shirts.

Things from my backyard...

There's this river...

More from the river trip...