Dawn over the Puujee ruins of the Santa Clara Pueblo with the Jemez Mountains in the background. The background left valley on the horizon is the Santa Clara River drainage headwaters, flowing from the tribe’s reacquired P’ opii Khanu land further upstream. Puujee Pueblo ruins date from about 1300 AD and was thought to be inhabited by as many as 3000 people.
Cenote Noh-Moson, in the state of Yucatan, Mexico, is ringed with ficus trees with ten meter long roots reaching toward the blue water below.
Elk wallow pond with dawn’s light streaming across the sedges with spruce/fir forest in background, headwaters of Turkey Creek.
