For purple mountain majesties...
I've posted twice about my October Road Trip out West... I've posted photos of Monument Valley HERE and of a BEAUTIFUL sunset HERE ...
Here are my photos of the Grand Canyon... again, I totally credit my new digital camera for how wonderful I feel these photos turned out...
From the observation platform at Desert View, South Rim
From the observation platform at Desert View, South Rim
I was so taken aback by all of the colors that appear in the layers of different rock and stone that are tiered down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon...
From the observation platform at Desert View, South Rim
On the Trail to Phantom Ranch...
We had decided to take about a 5 mile hike down the face of the Grand Canyon on the Trail that will eventually take one to Phantom Ranch, a lodge that is located on the floor of the Grand Canyon. This lodge is so popular that one has to arrange reservations almost a year in advance. It was so overcast... so cold... and at one point, the sun broke through and lit up this formation in the Canyon...
On the Trail to Phantom Ranch...
Scenery like this makes me feel SO insignificant... so small... When one figures and thinks about what all has transpired on this planet in the millions of years it's taken to form this Canyon... and how our existence on that time line is just a speck in time...
As we were driving from Desert View to Grand Canyon Village, we saw this HUGE herd of elk just off to the side of the highway... I am estimating that there must have been about 15 or so of them... and this one majestic bull elk...
What a country we have... How fortunate I feel to have been born in this Land...
God Bless America...
~shoes~
