Art @ The Hermitage: Lukachukai

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Lukachukai

My NeoWORX counter informed me this morning I'd had a visitor from Lukachukai USA. For whatever reason, the counter only supplies city and country names, but not state names, so I'm always diving onto Google to try to figure out where a US town is. I thought this one sounded Hawaiian, but was surprised to learn it's over 7000 feet high in NE Arizona, in the heart of the Navajo Nation. There were plenty of pictures available, so I thought I'd include a few here. It's a beautiful area, though I'm sure the weather extremes are nothing I'd care to experience. Here are the Lukachukai Mountains to the east of town...

And here is what is politely referred to as "Mid-town" Lukachukai...

I must say the population density appeals to my isolationist/hermit predilections - the population of the area is less than 2,000 - that's roughly 70 souls per square mile, as opposed to the over 3700 bodies per square mile here in Vallejo! The beautiful scenery would definitely inspire me to make a few landscape quilts, and maybe even take up fabric painting...

1 comment:

Healing Woman said...: I'm curious as to what a Neoworkx calendar is? I've never heard of that. You received some beautiful pictures of the area. I'll bet it does have extremes in weather as you said.; October 24, 2010 at 1:20 PM

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