Summer in Reno

It is really HOT in Reno this summer.  We go kayaking when we can to get out of the heat, but one kayak picture looks pretty much like another, so I won't post any more today.  It is too hot to garden, so today I just took a picture of the bees in the lavender and called that good for my gardening effort. We have six fully mature lavender plants on the back hill and they just hum all day with bees.  I consider that doing my part to prevent hive collapse.

 Since we haven't had any adventures for a while I thought that I would go back and post some pictures we took at Easter.  We were driving back to Reno from Moab in March and decided to stop at 9 mile canyon in the middle of nowhere Utah.  It is home to thousands of petroglyphs, but way off the beaten track.  We stayed at a bed and breakfast at the mouth of the canyon. It was not exactly a "Napa Valley" bed and breakfast.  Here is a picture of our suite, the Elvis room.

Calvin puts up with a lot in my quest for petroglyphs. We stayed on the road in the canyon, which was just recently paved, and saw the main identified petroglyph groups, but we have heard that the side canyons are full of lesser known groupings.  We made our first foray in the evening and found huge herds of deer grazing on the new grass. Deer are nice when they are grazing on someone else's grass.

 This unusual man on the left is called the juggler or the balloon man.  I'm not sure what he is meant to represent, but it was one of the more interesting petroglyphs.

I thought it was interesting that there were many buffalo pictures. I don't usually associate buffalo with the rock canyons of Utah. This one is called "Big Buffalo."

 Probably the most famous panel in this canyon is the Great Hunt. It is fairly recent as rock art goes.

 Calvin loved the flying warrior, so here is a close-up.

And I just loved it all!