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Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located 40 miles southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico (near Cochiti). Kasha-Katuwe means "white cliffs" in the Pueblo language Keresan.

The area owes its remarkable geology to layers of volcanic rock and ash deposited by a volcanic explosion that occurred 6 to 7 million years ago. Over time, weathering and erosion of these layers created canyons and tent rocks. The tent rocks themselves are cones of soft pumice and tuff beneath harder caprocks, and vary in height from a few feet to 90 feet.

While hiking along a trail that eventually leads through a slot canyon and up to the top of the cliffs, I glanced up and saw this tree growing in what seemed a very unlikely location.

I guess I've had an off-and-on love affair with photography my whole life. My father was always taking pictures and movies when I was a kid growing up on Long Island, NY in the 1950s-60s, and he gave me my own Kodak Brownie camera when I was around 6 years old. I remember using it to take pictures of family events and a trip to Washington DC, back in 1958. I still have some of the pictures ....... somewhere. Photography moved to the back burner during high school, college, and law school, but I picked it up again after I graduated law school in 1979, moved to Washington DC, and began my legal career with the federal government. Being alone in a new city, I would take my camera wherever I went, and I was soon making my own prints in...