The Ancestral Puebloans at Mesa Verde may have worked hard to survive, but their lives were also marked by beauty and creativity, seen in intricately woven baskets, ornately decorated pottery, and colorfully plastered interiors. Across Cliff Canyon on a ten foot wide ledge stands the House of Many Windows, a cliff dwelling whose openings are actually doors that could have been covered with stone slabs or animal hides. Four doors remain in the original eleven rooms, and evidence of a kiva survives on the north end of the ledge among the trees. Above it, a toehold trail leads to an upper alcove with one or possibly two rooms, then continues to the mesa top. For the people who lived there, the closest water source was probably below Sun Temple or from a seep spring on the south side of Sun Point. Though the inhabitants are gone, their works continue to inspire admiration in modern writers and artists.