Golden Eagle Sightings !   Hiker: Marc Yaxley On a short 1 hour hike today, I caught a quick video of a mom Eagle launching right over me. I had stumbled near and below a rock outcrop where she had made her seasonal nest and loaded it with eggs. Being a bed and breakfast at first I thought "how many people can I feed with one of those eggs?", then sanity returned and the lowly chicken eggs will have to suffice. Here is a snap of that video of her launching from the nest that I visit next: Looping over my head as I "hung out in the Eagles Nest" (I limited my visit to 2 to 3 minutes only): More fairly close (20') shots of her swooping around me as if to say, "...you better not touch those babies...": The nest niche they live in, two full size adults were in service as I came up, they both flew off as the above photos show, leaving their Eaglet for me to spy on: Mom flying over while I looked around, she did...

Marc and I were rather surprised when we were initially looking at purchasing Kelly Place, to find that they were selling fetishes.   We were from San Diego—What did we know….? For those of you (like us) who are unfamiliar with Native American fetishes, here is the scoop: The Zuni people (northern New Mexico) have, in their tradition, picked up stones which remind them of particular types of animals.   Over time, they began to modify the stones, shaping them to more closely resemble the animals.   Now, there is an entire generation of artists who carve, inlay and shape a wide variety of rock types to represent many different kinds of animals and also corn maidens.   These are not objects of worship, but objects meant to convey a particular trait such as strength or wisdom in honor of or to assist the owner in this characteristic.   It brings the characteristics associated with the animal to the owner.   Others are meant to remind the owner of o...