Tiny aster flowers
Everyone in the southwest recognizes Yuca plants
Driving up to higher places on the Mesa Verde roads...we often passed areas with signs saying there was a forest fire on such a date, and it had such a name.
Skeleton trees showed where there had been a wildfire recently, (within a few years ago) while the bushes began growing back right away. Some of the areas named for wildfires had recovered more, over several decades.
Our first view of cliff houses...Spruce Tree House allowed visitors to go along a walkway down the hill for a ways, but not into the actual site. I stayed on the overlook area!
Don't miss the tiny dwelling far over to the left in the cliff.
Spruce Tree House is at the same parking area as Chapin Museum...more on that tomorrow!
