While in Santa Fe for the Indian Market, my friend who specializes in landscape photography, took off for a day of hiking and photography at Bandelier National Monument. There is much to see in northern New Mexico but this trip was well in range of Santa Fe.
Bandelier is the centuries-old site of a large pre-Pueblo community that was established in the area's extensive volcanic cliffs. One of the state's most important cultural and archaeological sites, Bandelier is a beautiful spot that offers a view across time into the lives of the hundreds of Native Americans who called it home from 1100 to 1500 AD.
Photo Credit: Elizabeth R. Rose - The leaves beginning to turn at Bandelier

