Mesa Verde: Inside Balcony House

I definitely should have taken more photographs of this fascinating, cozy place. It must have felt pretty safe to the ancient Puebloans. I loved the view from this ruin. Our guide showed us the watering place, where even now water seeps through the sandstone. There are T-shaped doorways like at Chaco, also key-hole shaped kivas like the one in the picture. Interestingly, Balcony House was divided into two parts when a doorway was filled in with adobe mud--one of many mysteries about this place.