Pictures of Interest

 Welcome to the desert, a rare site of a tortoise hatching

 A handsome gopher snake I almost stepped on

I had to catch the snake for a picture

Baby Desert Mockingbird getting ready to leave his nest in my Olive tree

Broken Metate

"Another dead end" Looking for a way down a steep canyon in Arizona

Always another mile to go

Shelter from the storm

Who says it doesn't snow in the desert

Stickman plus double finger loop atlatl, more petroglyph pictures can be seen on the Big Horn Sheep page

Joshua Tree

From LIghtening Strike to LIfe.

Nice petroglyph.  My thoughts on this one finally came to me.  I think the main body is actually a double finger loop atlatl, and showing it  as a living object gives the hunter special magic for the hunt.

Pictographs of Deer

Natural Piece of colorful agate

Chunk of colorful agate perfect for a lithic blade core

Small agate outcropping in a ravine

 I saw him at dusk getting ready for his nightly excursion

Some fool hauling  rock in 105º heat out of the desert.  Wait, I think that's me!

Big Horn Sheep Petroglyph

Very unusual petroglyph

Another remote desert canyon

Rattlesnake Heaven

My 20 year old Desert Tortoise spending a lazy afternoon under the barbeque

Slowly fading pictograph

Hands of time

Gigantic Rock

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