Fajada Butte
Chaco Culture National Historic Park, NM
Happy Solstice! I don't have a solstice photo, so looked through my images and found inspiration.
Fajada Butte is famous for its Sun Dagger—an astronomical petroglyph created by the ancient puebloans to calculate the solstice (and Spring & Autumn equinox).
The photo I was going to post was small, as I'd originally processed it years ago. In finding the original I instead chose this one taken with my phone out of the window of my friend's car as we left the park at sunset. I thought the motion blur would serve as a nice metaphor for the passage of time since the Sun Dagger was first used to determine the Solstice.
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