Crack in the ruins

Wupatki National Monument, an article by Kelly Vaughn in January Arizona Highways magazine has photographs of a site known as "textile petroglyph central" on Horseshoe Mesa.

Joe lives there. I told him the photographs in the magazine show the best times really are morning and late afternoon. Without pause Joe snapped, "Every other time is too HOT!"

This is so ace it blows my mind.

The swirl is variously "water," "journey," "portal," and "creation" depending on context. One figure's hand is on the edge of the spiral as if beginning or ending a journey and the smaller figure's hand is centered for different effect. Very science fiction like.

These guys really liked to copyright their work.

Psych!

I don't know why they named it textile petroglyph central except probably for inspiring patterns for textiles. The symbols, the coloration, the spacing, the attitude inspire a lot more than textiles.

“I just know it was not efficient... It took a long time.”

"The execution of a convicted murderer in Arizona lasted for nearly two hours on Wednesday, as witnesses said he gasped and snorted for much of that time before eventually dying."

State officials disputed these accounts, contending that Wood was never in pain and that he was only snoring. 

“I’m telling you he was snoring,” Stephanie Grisham, spokeswoman for the Arizona attorney general’s office, said in an e-mail to The Washington Post. “There was no gasping or snorting. Nothing. He looked like he was asleep. This was my first execution and I have no reason to minimize this.” (link to the story)

Undated file photograph of Joseph Wood

Update: Lawyers demand outside probe of two-hour Arizona execution

Joe's hikes

A National Park in California. Joe said, but I forgot which one specifically. We did not discuss the closings. The guy with the backpack likes to make a point of touching snow on as many peaks as possible. Joe took the pictures, just turned eighty-years old a few months ago.

Snake in the yard eating a groundhog that drowned in the pool. Enwraps it, embraces it, makes sweet sweet furry mammal love to it, devours it. 

You sick snake.