Thoughts From My Journal – At the Canyon Rim
Walked to the Canyon rim, first view from there this trip and as always, a shocking sight; besides the unique beauty it invariably takes me into deep time: six million years to carve the Canyon and the side canyons, formations, and myriad astonishing features, a long...
Thoughts From My Journal – Nature after Covid
Flurry of snow falls around the camper. The massive improbability of Grand Canyon defies description; it is, I admit, grander than Yosemite Valley but I have never become intimate with it as I have the Valley. It is futile and pointless to compare them by objective...
February in Death Valley
Twig and I just returned from a couple mile walk into what I call the foothills of the Valley’s eastside, a landscape of strangely configured, erosionally contoured, multi-earth-toned color. I know too few words to describe what isn’t beautiful in Nature, or rather...
