THIS LAND IS OUR LAND

The people of Hohokam inhabited this land 3000 years ago. It was a meager existence to be sure. Maybe there was more rain during that time and the hills were alive with eatable vegetation during their stay, I hope so, because it is dust-dry now. A woodpecker would have to pack a lunch should it decide to cross a section of this country today.

The sun rounds the earth and sets ablaze "our" peaceful mountain home of the past few days.

Like a fireball, which it is, the sun begins its decent just as clouds gather to become a part of the day’s final colorful shout. In the 3000 years, about a million days, that human eyes have been watching the sunsets from this vantage point, many has been the night with a brilliant kaleidoscope of color. Last night we were here and stood in awe as the sky shifted with mesmerizing  colors and spellbinding shapes.

Note to the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management:

Woodie Guthrie wrote, "This Land Is Our Land."  Hello!  Not "Your Land," it's "Our Land."