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I had become many eons ago a traveling literary gnome, inquisitive about places I had and had not visited,
walking the same paths of peoples from the past, through places once grand and still grand,
photographing images that now show me the places about which I still dream . . .

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Alibates National Monument

     In the area of the Alibates National Monument, 10,000 years ago, the people who lived there employed bison bones as shovels and hoes. They lived by hunting and planting corn, as well as harvesting mesquite pods, yuccas, and other edible plants. In addition, they quarried a highly regarded flint, unusual for its colors. 

 
Ranger Andrew uses a dolomite base as he crushes gravel into smaller particles for making pottery. 

 
Wine cups grow near a large piece of alibates flint. 

 
Petrified wood adorns the walkway in front of the ranger station. 

 
Ranger Dave explains the geology of the Alibates National Monument and the flora and fauna that thrive in the area. 

 
Flint shards, sage, and yucca. 


























A female collared lizard standing on a piece of quartz poses for us. 

 
View from the quarry on the mesa. 

 
Dolomite sprinkles the buttes surrounded by flowers. 

 
Gypsum falls off a mound of red soil. 

 
Dolomite boulders on the mesas. 

 
Poster on exhibit in the ranger station. 

 

Visit their Web site https://www.nps.gov/alfl/index.htm

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