
Steeped in symbolism / ancient image of magic / rain and the harvest
Up on a mesa / loud noise from gunfire nearby / hard to relax here
Repeated nowhere / cold winter morning panel / do you feel loopy
Small pictograph site / bighorn sheep pass by with a bird / scale is confounding
These anthros type site / San Juan basketmaker style / wild head ornaments
Geometric delight / on obscure sandstone surface / far away and close
Up high in tuff cave / are polychrome pictograph / site called Lion's Mouth
Along the San Juan / one of a kind element / petroglyphs on cliff
Deeply carved rock edge / unusual but repeated / rock decoration
Why here and not there / am just lucky to see this / age and meaning unknown
Quail topknot headdress / shield bearing anthropomorphs / yellow and red pictos
Down in a rock cleft / is told a magical tale / sheep, birds, and humans
A ceremony / petroglyphs and a notched edge / sang out to canyon

Before driving home / we stopped to see this panel / up on a rock cliff
Many years ago / a rain making ritual / red ochre image
Patina and light / high up on a sandstone cliff / powerful figures
Back when it was cool / head ornaments, necklaces / to be called a square
Bighorn sheep petros / repecked above the river / a horn with a twist
Rock star fluteplayer / jamming to an unknown song / high up on a cliff
Next to an old ruin / fancy footwear petroglyph / left a track in stone
Parawon petros / abstract images on rock / thought to be Fremont
Projection on rock / bighorn stands up on two legs / and jams with a flute
Just like real estate / it's all about location / ancient images
Basketmaker pair / one repecked at later date / San Juan river high
Archaic panel / rolled over and landed here / duckhead made later
Perfect shield-like work / desecrated by gunshot / near San Juan river
Shield high on a ledge / best offense is a good defense / looking out over
Negative handprints / on the wall above a ruin / high five from the past
Seven vertical / concentric circles stacked / split by a shadow
Sasquatch with a bow / is what a friend called this site / on a Facebook post
Cranes with knobby knees / favorite fly by image / next to anthros & sheep
It comes together / a panel tells a story / above the tall cliffs
Before and after / the world of cause and effect / a story is told
Concentric circle / high up near a cliff dwelling / green and white design
So evocative / a procession and story / up there on Comb Ridge
A reptile takes strength / in a desert boulder pile / from the eggs it eats
Drive through fields of hemp / Pronghorn antelope passing by / to get to this rock
Way up on the cliffs / is a very nice image / Coyote and stars
Panel and ruin / in a canyon overhang / nine hundred years old
Let's set the table / high up on a canyon wall / sheep cast by a spell

Might be post contact / looks Fremont but could be Ute / hard to tell apart


Not far from the road / maybe a Mona Lisa / a story still calls
Deep dark narrow slot / patina grows more quickly / than in the open


Out in the canyons / hand, animals, and bunchgrass / power and plenty
Knobby knees and cane / the years pass by so quickly / oh now, it's my back!



my friends directions / best small to mid size boulder / petroglyph panel
Snake gulch style figure / smaller Cave Valley anthros / Virgin branch flautist
These wooden branches / set in adobe plaster / some call a Jailhouse
Back before the swoosh / moccasin tracks left behind / spirals in the sand
This image inspired / a long drive and a nice walk / called a backpack trip
V-necked hunting blind / petro appears to tell tale / of communal hunt
Window and a door / next to a fine petroglyph / canyon granary