I began this work in 1999 and originally called it The Standing Stones.  After years of moving and realigning  the stones I renamed the site Crestonehenge, a combination of Crestone, Colorado and Stonehenge. 

    The main quality of the environment is expansiveness with views extending to horizons.   Five miles to the East are the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, fifty miles to the West are the Saguache and San Juan Mountains, seventy miles to the south is the New Mexico border .   The San Luis Valley is a high altitude desert which accounts for the other qualities of the environment.  The soil is sandy and dry, vegetation is sparse, cacti, rabbit bush, Buffalo grass and Cottonwood trees predominate on the valley floor.  The skies are almost always sunny, in the winter the temperature "feels" warmer than it actually is and in the summer it is intense.  Then there is the wind.  Normally a slight breeze blowing through the grasses with a sound like someone whispering, it can increase to a fury of blown sand and dust that can seem never ending.

    I used stones to begin marking the passage of time as measured in seasons.  Stones were aligned to direct the eye to the points on the mountain ranges where the sun would appear to rise and set on the solstices, equinoxes and midpoints.  This was done by observation rather than calculation.... a long process.... one year to set the stones... and another to verify their alignments.

    This website is a record of that process and all the many changes that took place over five years.