Time to move on from my Sand Canyon Trail images. There's still plenty more to see in the gallery, and it's not that the rest aren't worth a write up, it's just that I want to move on to other parts from my Colorado trip, so be sure to check out the gallery for other Sand Canyon images.
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My hike along Sand Canyon Trail didn't take as long as I had planned for, so rather than sitting around, I drove up the road a little ways to the Anasazi Heritage Center (that's a link to their site, click here for my image of the center) in nearby Dolores, Colorado. If you're ever in the area, and have an interest in the Ancestral Puebloans, stop by this museum. It only takes a $3 donation to get in, is one of the best museums for the Ancestral Puebloans around and has a couple small pueblo ruins on the grounds.
The smaller of the two pueblos, Dominguez Pueblo, sits right out front of the museum but isn't extraordinarily interesting on its own. I'm not sure I even took a photo of it. If I did, it wasn't interesting enough when I reviewed it at home to save it from the trash bin. Escalante Pueblo on the other hand, is a bit more interesting. A half mile trail of switchbacks leads from the Anasazi Heritage Center uphill to Escalante Pueblo and offers 360 degree views of the surrounding area, but I'll get into that more with the next image.
This image has been my desktop background at work for a while now. There's just something pleasing to me about it. The more I look at it, the more I enjoy the layers within it, the scrub bush in the foreground, the v-shape of the walls, curve of the hill and the brilliant blue cloud filled sky. Definitely a favorite from the trip (I'm pretty picky about my desktop backgrounds, so the fact that this one has lasted so long is proof that I like it)!
The smaller of the two pueblos, Dominguez Pueblo, sits right out front of the museum but isn't extraordinarily interesting on its own. I'm not sure I even took a photo of it. If I did, it wasn't interesting enough when I reviewed it at home to save it from the trash bin. Escalante Pueblo on the other hand, is a bit more interesting. A half mile trail of switchbacks leads from the Anasazi Heritage Center uphill to Escalante Pueblo and offers 360 degree views of the surrounding area, but I'll get into that more with the next image.
This image has been my desktop background at work for a while now. There's just something pleasing to me about it. The more I look at it, the more I enjoy the layers within it, the scrub bush in the foreground, the v-shape of the walls, curve of the hill and the brilliant blue cloud filled sky. Definitely a favorite from the trip (I'm pretty picky about my desktop backgrounds, so the fact that this one has lasted so long is proof that I like it)!
