Odd and amazing rock formations are one of the features we have come to appreciate in our hikes around New Mexico. Some, like those at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, are tourist attractions visited by many people, but others are hidden away in unexpected places. This week we visited some rock formations that are in the latter category.
About an hour from Albuquerque, in the Jemez Mountains, there is a Santa Fe National Forest campground at Paliza Canyon and several dirt roads and trails in and around the canyon. There aren’t any formal trails so we were glad to have our friend, Sue, and her GPS device along to guide us. We were on our way to visit the rock formations called The Goblin Colony.
By walking about a mile up the dirt road where we parked our car, we could have directly gotten to the formations, but to make it a longer hike, we first went along a wooded creek in the canyon. Then we ascended to a ridgeline viewpoint where we could look out over the canyon. After lunch we descended through a side canyon and approached the goblins from above, sneaking up on them from behind, you might say.
As we approach the month of October and commercialized America begins to fill stores and advertisements with images of Halloween ghosts and goblins, we can say we have already enjoyed nature’s version of ghostly images.
Living Wonderously 
They do look very ghost-like! Remarkable.
Love your last comment/reflection.