SF 5

We had a whole day together which was a nice change. Drove through the desert to the Bandelier National Monument http://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm which was spectacular. Cave dwellings, incredible canyons, the Rio Grande. As we walked through one deserted deep canyon we heard a loud animal noise; sounded like monkeys or something out of Jurassic Park. We could not work it out, then I looked up and saw skeins of Cranes flying on passage from Mexico up to Idaho for nesting. There are few things more moving for me than Cranes in flight. I scrabbled around for my camera and got it in time for this shot.