'Midnight at the Oaisis', well not exactly. The image below is of one of my Cedar Mesa camps. It's about 8:00 PM and I am getting ready to light a campfire and make dinner. As you can see it was a beautiful full moon evening on the mesa.
Cedar Mesa is a very special place. It was home to some of the Puebloan ancestors, or Anastazi as they preferred to be called, over 1,000 years ago. Anastazi means, ancient ones. Their modern descendants are the Pueblo, Zuni and Hopi.
As I sat by the fire that evening I thought about the 'ancient ones', and whether they had slept in this very spot, centuries before Columbus discovered the 'New World', their world. It would be several more centuries before the first europeans actually set foot on Cedar Mesa. Tomorrow I would make my own exploration of the wash and canyon behind my camp where I would find many treasures.
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