Volcano's Anyone?

Here we are. It's Sunday. Tomorrows Monday and the beginning of another work week. I've got some training to do on a tool that I have not used in a very long time this next week. That should be interesting! I'll briefly review some notes tonight, then probably stay late tomorrow night to get close and personal with it. Caress it. Get close. Speak gently, Hold a hammer. Swing it. Persuade it. Pray!

Today I did more hiking in the Petroglyph National Monument. Today was the Volcano's trail. Only did part of it. You can see one of the volcano's in the background on the pic of me. Here are some other photo's . . .

To one side, the Sandia Mountains and the city of Albuquerque.

To another side, the vast open desert.

Another one of the volcano's.

Oh cool!! A mound of what looks like flying ants living in the lava rock. Never seen anything like it. Yes ants do produce flying ants that run off to start new colonies, but this many? I don't think so. I'll have to research this one later.

And yes, it was pretty warm, but not too bad over all. There were clouds that provided cover on occasion, and last nights rain kept things pretty cool most of the morning. I don't think it really started to heat up until after one or so (we got there around 2:30pm). There is one more trail to do at that location. Will head back later to do it.