"Be Reverent"

 

This is Desert Christ Park, in Yucca Valley. As the sign indicates, all of the sculptures were made by one man, Antone Martin, beginning in the 1950s. The park is now maintained by volunteers. A single-mindedness of purpose, for sure...

(The title of this post comes from a sign admonishing visitors to "Be reverent" at another Southern California desert religious sculpture garden, Bible Land, which is now gone. There, one man sculpted various religious scenes...out of sand. Somewhere in my "archives," there are analog photos of our trip to see that. I will have to dig them out and scan them one of these days!)

Route 66 Road Trip Day 7: We're Finally There (on Route 66)

Santa Fe to Albuquerque.

 Crazy sculpture in Santa Fe.

 Super cool printing museum and workshop.

 New Mexican food since 1952...B. had green chile pozole which he loved (I had corn tamales, yummy).

 Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument...one of the coolest places I've ever seen. I took tons of photos--these are but a small sample.

 Weird tree!

Slot canyons...

 Yes, we hiked through here!

 Just...wow.

 Fruit trees in bloom in Albuquerque, just gorgeous.

 Los Poblanos Organic Farm and Inn (where we stayed)--farm cat.

Spectacular turkeys, walking around just outside the restaurant.

 The restaurant at the inn, wonderful farm-to-table cuisine.