Relaxing

What a nice, relaxing day! We had two long days at the Pecos Conference, an annual field gathering of SW archeologists, which this year was held at McPhee Reservoir, a few miles north of Cortez and west of Dolores.

For me, it was nice to see some old friends from my Chaco and Anasazi Heritage Center days, some of whom I hadn't seen in years. I listened to a few of the presentations, ate a lot of dust and stood in a LONG line for chow Saturday evening.

Sandy met some of my old acquaintances (friends and otherwise), ate a lot of dust and stood in that same long line shown above. The dust was really awful on Friday, and still unpleasant Saturday.

I think both of us enjoyed discussing our photos with the many people who came by and we did make some sales (especially after we posted a "Dust Discount" sign the second day). It was very gratifying in that many folks, buyers or not, expressed their joy at some of the scenes we show, and our motto is "Share the Joy."

Before supper Saturday, Sandy suggested taking a walk and we got down to an outcropping where we could look up the McPhee Reservoir at boaters, the La Platas and Point Lookout (shown at the right).

We slept like logs last night and had a quiet day of going to meeting, lunch at the Kennebec Café and then home to play with the neglected dog and tend to some chores. Temp was down into the 40s last night and not too hot today ... just nice! tv