Deep Time, Vast Space

Monday, June 23, 2008

Grand Canyon

These columns were most interesting and completely inaccessible. I can imagine that standing on top of one would give one vertigo.

Sweet Charlene, my roommate for much of the trip.

Interesting Smaller Dwellings at Wupatki, AZ

Views like these make me feel contained (safe) and expansive all at the same time.

Petrified Forest on the Way to Flagstaff

I wish the sun hadn't been so bright because there was such an array of rich colors in these petrified logs.

One of the logs going down stream.

The whole clan after a day learning about the new dinosaur that had been discovered by the paleantologist at the Museum of Northern Arizona (to the left of Chuck, and who ducked out of the picture at the last moment).

Juan finally gets a decent burger, although I don't know what the side dish is!

Lightning Field

Mary Jo convinced us to stop at Pie Town (it's on the map!) to get some snacks for the Lightening Field. We were the second group in our clan to spend the night out there.

We called ahead to tell the driver we would be late (due to the stop at Pie Town), and we were even later due to interference from a law enforcement brigaide...but we didn't really need to hurry, because Mr. Weathers (the driver - not shown) is a laid back cowboy who doesn't get uppity about much.

Sunshine one of the lightning rods - sorry it's sideways...thought I rotated it already.

Our cabin in the vast space.

A family of rabbits lives underneath the cabin. While we were drawing on the roll of paper out on the back porch, one hopped right up to me from the field and stopped to watch before it scurried under the cabin.