"Cocoraque Butte, Arizona" (c) 2007
"Cocoraque Butte, Ironwood National Monument, AZ" (c) 2007 Stu Jenks
"The Sun at Cocoraque Butte, Ironwood National Monument, AZ" (c) 2007 Stu Jenks
"Rock at Cocoraque Butte, Ironwood National Monument, AZ (c) 2007 Stu Jenks
[From yesterday's deep hike into the Ironwood National Forest, an area of 'death playas', illegal paths, and old or not-so-old petrogylphs. (The dates '1921' and '1887' were etched into some rocks at the Butte, along with the Hohokam images of men, big horns and the Sun.) Took some images, played a song or two on the mandolin, saw my first Gila Monster in the wild (The boy simply disappeared before I could get my camera out.) First sunburn of 2007. A place of isolation, and full silence. A place where the Gods can easily be heard.]




