Blair Valley

I slept in the desert.

There were teddy bear cholla...








and Mammilaria





lots of agave desertii





a few ferocactus cylindricus








and echinocereus







I woke up before dawn and walked to a site that was once a seasonal a Kumeyaay village.
This symbol is all that is left of a pictograph over a thousand years old. Below the black symbol there are more symbols in a red pigment that are very faint. Nobody knows what they mean.




This vertical rock had many smooth dents carved carefully into it.



This is the main grinding stone. The mortero holes are a foot deep and were made slowly by dozens of generations. At the top there are some that were just started.



This is what the place looks like.