“One real world is enough.” - George Santayana
This is a place we are all familiar with, wagon trains winding their way though the buttes, and John Wayne leading the way. Monument Valley has been the scene of many movies, it is a vast landscape begging to be filmed or photographed.
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“To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour..”
- William Blake
“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
- John Wesley Powell
Although we only had a few hours to visit this great spectacle, it was still worthwhile. I had not been there for many years, and the crowds had become horrendous, the downside of the experience.
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most” - John Ruskin
Antelope Canyon, outside of Page, Arizona, is the most famous slot canyon in the southwest. It is a mecca for photographers. Situated on Navajo land, it can only be visited by permit only, generally this means taking an established tour out of Page.
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“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”
- Norman Fitzroy Maclean
Situated in Arizona and Utah, the Glen Canyon has been carved out of the Vermillion Cliffs by the Colorado River. The image is of Horseshoe bend which can be reached off Highway 89, about 6 km. south of Page. It is about a kilometer walk from the parking lot to the overlook.
Just south of Tucson in the Santa Rita Mountains, is Madera Canyon, one of the finest birding destinations in Arizona and the U.S. The entrance lies off of Exit 63 on Highway 19 going south from Tucson.The grasslands of the lowlands gives way to Pine-Oak Woodland as the land rises. The grasslands may have Greater Roadrunner , Red-tailed Hawk , Say’s Phoebe , Gambel’s Quail , Curve-billed Thrasher , Northern Raven , Verdin , and Cactus Wren . (more…)
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