Trees are leafing out with delicate hues of green. Yellow mustard flowers are splashed over the grassy hills. White dogwood blossoms dot the woods, but it is still early. Until the wild azaleas bloom, it really isn’t Spring in the hills of southwestern Virginia.
Photo taken in the carriage barn at the Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado, Arizona. It is the oldest trading post in the United States and on the National Register of Historic Sites. It is worth a visit to see the massive hand-cut timbers holding up the earthen roof, to take in the musty smell of hay and horses, and to walk the same dirt floors as our ancestors.
There are certainly more old blue doors in New Mexico than in the entire rest of the universe.
The White House is nestled in a sheer sandstone cliff that drops 700 feet from the canyon rim to the narrow valley floor. The rock structure has a coat of white plaster that gives the ancient cliff dwelling it’s name. It was last occupied approximately 300 years ago by ancestors of the current Navajo nation.
Kachinas convey wonder, mystery, and connections between reality and the spirit worlds. If an image is old and peeling, so much the better. Imagination is much more powerful than reality. This fragment is from a wall painting on a long-closed trading post in Divide, New Mexico. - RB
