It is the third of September / The day I'll always remember.
September 3 is "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" Day, because it's the day referenced in the opening line of that R&B classic. I don't have any pictures of tumbling rocks and, even if I did, how could tell they were moving from a still photo? But there are plenty of rocks and stones in this picture from Aztec Ruins National Monument, tucked away in the New Mexico corner of the Four Corners region.
The ruins aren't "Aztec" per se. They were built by the Pueblo Culture Indians about a thousand years ago. They are interesting and impressive and worth a visit if you find yourself in the neighborhood.
Visited April or May in 1998.
(Regarding the reference to this not being "Aztec per se," historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists are still uncertain where the Aztecs originated and how they ended up on a plateau in Central Mexico just in time for a meet up with Spanish conquistador Cortez. One plausible theory is that the Aztecs were the lost Anasazi people who disappeared from the four corners region of Arizona and New Mexico around 1200. So it is plausible -- remotely plausible but plausible -- that "Aztec Ruins" the national monument has a relationship to the Aztecs of Mexico, although the name "Aztec" being assigned to the national monument would be pure coincidence and not due to foresight.)
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