So, there are tons of petroglyphs and pictographs around here. Hence, Petroglyphs National Monument is 10 minutes away from our house. Here are some of the neat ones that I've seen.

Horseshoe Crabs have been on this earth a long, long time.

So have some of the trees here in NM, although not nearly as long as this crab species. Still, one life lived for so long is pretty impressive.

Here are some more pictures of Sandia:

So I hiked up Sandia Peak with my Brother-in-law, Ben, and some friends. It was beautiful, and here are some black and whites that I took. I experimented with the burning feature of gimp, and unfortunately, the files were massive so I had to save them at 90% quality to be able to upload them. They got a little grainy.

So I just found out that while we have Hannah Montana over here, while they have Il Volo over their. I have to admit that my American pride is hurt by how much talent is exhibited in those kids. Come on, American kids, let's get it together and come out with some real talent. I guess Justin Bieber is pretty talented, but when you team up with someone like Usher, it all falls to crap. And Bieber is Canadian anyway.

And its not just the Italians who are showing us up. Here is an Arabic genius that Sierra found, who just needs something to record sounds with, and he can produce something of actual value.



I guess I'm going a little overboard in my statements, the world isn't going to end because of our dearth of good music. But really, here in America, the good sources of music left are not popular, and they are hard to find. What is popular tends to be a bunch of noise that annoys the soul. We could do with a cleansing in the music industry, putting our faith and resources into other mouths than those of the giant recording industry which supplies us with a wasteland radio cesspool lacking the color of talent, but certainly not lacking in the revenue generated from advertising.

Enough about that, just try and develop culture on a personal level I guess. And fight the man, ie. the moneysucking record companies. Support guys like this:

https://www.daytrotter.com/

We've had a decent drought in Florida, but there have still been a few beautiful sunsets. It will be sad to leave the beautiful weather here. I know the summers are hot, and the mosquitoes will get insane at some point, but I do really like it here. I think there is a beauty to every part of the earth, in the forests, mountains, deserts, oceans, swamps, etc., and, in my book, it exponentially increases the majesty of it all.

 Easter is a fun time of year, that's for sure. I love to just mess around making eggs pretty. I actually drained five of these eggs before we decorated them, and I was going to spray a matte finish on them, but I think they got tossed. One day I'm going to drain them, fill them with heavily salted water, let them dry out so the salt cake will coat the inside and act as a preservative, decorate them, spray a permanent finish on them, and then go place them up high on a cliff on the Y-mount, or someplace more remote. I would spend more time on them, and make them into the most amazing eggs you've ever seen... I'm such a weirdo. :)

These are some pics of a fish house in Houston. The service was amazing, and the food was decent. I would recommend this as a place 100 times better than "III Forks" which is basically down the street, and which we ate at the night before.  Great steak can't make up for rude idiot waiters. 

I think this frog is not indigenous, but I could be wrong. Either way, its cool to have frogs like this hopping around in you backyard.  Living in Naples is like having a pet store in your own backyard, and you don't need cages to have an amazing collection of animals constantly surrounding you. What an amazing creation our little Spaceship Earth really is.

A long time ago, I crept onto campus late at night, and used a nail punch to inscribe this on an eve of a gazebo.  I did it in honor of the late Hugh Nibley, although I'm not sure if he would appreciate its graffiti nature.  I did it in January, and so it was pretty cold.  It took all night long, and I was freaked out the whole time because my wife had planted warnings of expulsion in my head. 

Beautiful sunset when we went out to dinner one time. We had a double rainbow show up too, but I didn't get the picture of the double, just the single. I wonder if the middle latitudes have brighter sunlight, and therefore an increased likelihood to see double rainbows...

So, I also made this a long time ago, and haven't ever posted these pictures. Thanks, Ben, for thinking it was cool, and for actually keeping it. It actually had a lot of meaning behind it, Little Bighorn, etc, which I've tried to show in the pictures. I include the picture below in case anyone doesn't know what this is supposed to be.