Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - Clovis NM
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Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, Three Rivers NM, April 28, 2009
How to share my pictures
I'm beginning work on a way to share the many pictures I've taken here at Three Rivers Petroglyph Site and others I took at Valley of Fires. It may take a while to get my act together (what else is new?) but there is much to share.
Resting on the way to Clovis
On my way over to Clovis on US 70 a few miles east of Portales I stopped at a rest area for lunch and a break and realized there was a museum sharing the parking lot. How unusual to find a museum at a rest area. What's that all about? Well I'm sure you are all familiar with the Clovis archaeological site. Turns out it is right in this neighborhood in Blackwater Draw. Here we have the Blackwater Draw Museum run by Eastern New Mexico University.
Blackwater Draw Museum
The Blackwater Draw Museum displays artifacts and exhibits associated with the Locality No. 1 site. Over 13,000 years of site usage are described, from mammoth hunting to modern culture.
There is also a self guided tour of Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1
Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1
Blackwater Locality No. 1 is a National Historic Landmark that is one of the most important archaeological sites in the New World. This unique site documents and interprets the earliest Paleoindian cultures in North America. It is a research entity and used as a reference point for Paleoindian Studies in North America and the Southern High Plains. Blackwater Locality No. 1 is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This time of year it is only open on weekends - darn.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Clovis NM
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #821, 3728 N Prince Street, Clovis, NM 88101 - (575) 769-2261
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service- Extended Network reception ok
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - Seldom exceeds dialup speeds on Extended Network
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
They do not Intrude on Each Other
The San Francisco Mountain lies in northern Arizona, above Flagstaff, and its blue slopes and snowy summit entice the eye for a hundred miles across the desert. About its base lie the pine forests of the Navajos, where the great red-trunked trees live out their peaceful centuries in that sparkling air. The pinons and scrub begin only where the forest ends, where the country breaks into open, stony clearings and the surface of the earth cracks into deep canyons. The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude on each other. ...
The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, p265, Houghton Mifflin Co paperback edition 1987