The top photo is the view of the Mesa Verde escarpment as seen from the north looking south. This is the mountain that Clifton Kelley, the main character in the soon to be released book The Ruin has seen for his entire life eight miles distant. The second photo is in a deep canyon carved into the sloping green table top. The farm on which he has lived his 14 years has many traces of the same culture that built Cliff Palace, the magnificent ruin shown above. Clifton's youthful curiosity about the people who lived and farmed the same soil that he labors over and the mysterious cities just over the escarpment in the canyons of Mesa Verde is further fueled by a remarkable discovery in one of the canyons that criss cross the plateau where his family farm is located.
Happy New Year Everyone.
Got to put in a few hours on the book before the parade begins down in Pasadena
and Oregon's team plays in the Rose Bowl.
Since the daughter is an alum I guess I know who I'll be rooting for.
May you all have the very best in 2010
Respectfully submitted
Ken Fenter
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