Today was another day of sight-seeing only this time we went to the Chiricahua Mountains and the National Monument. What beautiful country with such a diverse topography.
Here are a couple of unique sites that we saw. The first being Cochise's Head Mountain. There is a 100 ft fir tree that looks like his eye-brows. Unfortunately you can't see them in this picture. 
Now here is view looking up through the sun-roof in the truck. This area is called the "Pipe Organ" and I suspect you can see why. These rocks just towered over the road... sure glad they didn't decide to come down at this time - HA!
Next is what I call the Cactus Patch... these were growing up the west side (the dry side) of the mountain and it looked as if someone has planted them. It was pretty unique.
Last but not least was the "balanced rock". Believe it or not this rock started out as part of the mountain but wind, rain, freezing temperatures all help erosion to take place leaving this balanced on another tall column. There are no supports so who know when it will fall. There are others that were balanced and have fallen but I did not see any as big as this one.Well, tomorrow it is back to the ranch for me. It will also be Arda's last ride in this area as she is packing up and heading to San Diego where she will begin her trip on March 6, 2008.
Temperature = 64
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