Bandelier National
Monument, New Mexico
Frijoles Canyon
The cliffs are volcanic tuff
Frijoles Canyon is just south of Los Alamos
It is one of many canyons in the Pajarito Plateau
Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) indians made their home here
The big kiva, a religious center
Tyuonyi Pueblo on the canyon floor
This pueblo contained four hundred rooms
A kiva in Tyuonyi
Most rooms were probably used for storage
Looking down on Tyuonyi
The pueblo is over six hundred years old
Rooms were carved out of the soft cliffs
Most had stone rooms built in front
Caves are plastered and smoke-blackened
Much of this is natural erosion
Cliff face and walkway
A reconstructed home
Looking up to the top of the cliff
A cavate
Looking back along the canyon
A home in the stone
Remnants of a home
Looking down on Tyuonyi
Looking back on the home reconstruction
Perhaps a hundred people lived out on the canyon floor
Reconstructed cavate
Cave Kiva
Cliffs over the Long House
Rainclouds in the distance. It snowed later in the day
The "Long House"
A long row of houses built along the cliff face
Multistory apartments
Along the cliff
Stone walls and cavates
Back wall and cubbyhole
Three stories marked by viga holes
Looking back along the cliff
This is a bat cave
Preserved plaster with design
At the end of the Long House
Pictograph of a macaw
Cottonwood trees
Short trail to the Alcove House
Small group of dwellings across the canyon
Layers of volcanic tuff
Alove House
Accessible by steep paths and ladders
Teh climbing was too much for my trick knee
Seen from across the canyon
Coming back towards the visitor center
Another view from across the canyon
Little Boy and Fat Man, Bradbury Science
Museum in Los Alamos
Reproduction of"Fat Man, the second atomic bomb
Atomic comics!
Leslie Groves and Robert Oppenheimer, parents of the
atomic bomb
Leaving Los Alamos