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 – Natural Spectacle
I walked on the bluff earlier watching today’s high surf. Waves up to 28’ were forecast; hard to tell if they reached that but the sea was certainly tumultuous, as high as I ever remember seeing it. Extremely frothy and carrying considerable woody debris, which I...
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...
Thoughts From My Journal – Discovering John Muir
A few months ago, I was reading an essay that cited John Muir and for unknown reasons felt more acutely than normal how much I’d loved him and his sensibilities. So, I pulled down the first book of his I’d ever read, the initial introduction occurring in 1988 as I was...