El Morro National Monument by Buffalo1
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Description
Welcome to west-central New Mexico and the Ramah Indian Reservation. El Morro is a mesa(table mountain)with a natural water tank at its base - a very important feature in the dry landscape. Ruins of a pueblo town are on top, and the sides have been used as an inscription rock full of Indian glyphs, Spanish conquistador brags, plus American soldiers and settlers doing the 19th century version of "Kilroy was here." I asked a park ranger about the precarious nature of this rock and asked if there was a a prediction for it falling. The ranger mused, "10 minutes, 10 years, 10,000 years. It's up to Mother Nature."

Comments (8)
Wow !! What a view, great capture !!
Nice picture
Awesome landscape and a good composition with great depth. Love the sandstone (?) formations.
Beautiful capture. I shot some photos of El Moro when I was working in New Mexico. You have a wonderful eye. Thank you :)
Very nice POV!Thanks for the bit of history! :)
interesting area. and very precarious rock! only mother nature knows for sure :). Nice cpature and thanks for sharing!
Fascinating... like it so very much !
Great capture and information Rog! BTW, I saw a picture of Renee, but briefly. It was one i hadn't seen before and when I wanted to look at it again, I couldn't get it again. Your site is somehow screwed up, I was never able to get to the 15 pages, and the picture was on the first 7 pages but has disappeared lol!