Cortez

Good start on the job in Cortez. New client. Indian cultural center.

Not a bad view from the campground. Cortez is to our rear. Out the left windows, we see the snow covered San Juans north of Durango in the distance. Out the front, we look up at the plateaus of Mesa Verde National Monument. Out the right windows we have the silhouette of the Sleeping Ute.

We’ve made a couple forays out through the pinyon/juniper forests in search of the juniper titmouse. Nothing yet. Drove into the monument today for some good cliff dwelling views and white throated swifts swirling in the canyons. Watched packs of ravens riding the rollercoaster updrafts off the cliff faces, bursting up in a group from below the edge, then folding their wings to fall back below the forest and cliff edge until the next ride. It looks fun to be a raven.

We like it here.