NRIM-- 05.2005--   © markie p. images

  ...on Camping and making cowboy coffee- if gnats 
and biting flies-- just keep moving-- they do settle down right about sun-fall-- Camping on NRIM 30-40 miles west of NRIM NPS road out on the Kaibab Ranger District-- if close to rim then very 'scenic' view to awaken to-- besides -- all the stars and milky way strands plus the deafening quiet only broken by a fly's buzz-- occasional passing jet or better yet the soundings of wind vortex arising out of the Canyon itself during the overnights...-- Old school camping, isn’t it nice-- none of the distractions, all there is to do is enjoy what’s around you... it’s that what we really seek when on the road. So much beauty out there.

Thanksgiving trip 2017-- So. Rim, GRCA  Steller's Jay and Raven

 

Over time 'home' for me has become 'place'. This place.

Back from trip to NRIM AZ--
buffalo in the rut...

 

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April 21, 2015

Reading list:

• Hidden Alaska : Bristol Bay and Beyond / photography by Michael Melford ; text by Dave Atcheson.
• Blood Orchid : An Unnatural History / Charles Bowden.
• The complete encyclopedia : Antarctica and the Arctic / David McGonigal, Lynn Woodworth ; [foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary].
• Auschwitz: a history / Sybille Steinbacher; translated by Shaun Whiteside.
• The last flight of Poxl West / Daniel Torday.

Ansel Adams California / photographs by Ansel Adams ; with classic California writings ; edited by Andrea G. Stillman ; introduction by Page Stegner.
 

Frost on ground cover this AM.

The naturalist remembers to observe, do and be in the environment with purpose in the doing. The political religious military complex has little bearing when the senses are fully engaged—

April 1, 2015

Grand Canyon; Vault of Heaven, Susan Lamb

“…I came to the Canyon as a naturalist in 1983, to learn and tell the story of the people who lived here centuries ago. Yet in asking ‘how did they live?’ I grew to appreciate more about the plants and animals from the rim to the river, and how the sun, the wind and the rain determined so much about life here then as now. I learned how the very walls of Grand Canyon are part of the answer, and why people might make their homes in such a demanding place.

“Descendants of the Pueblo people who lived here long ago consider Grand Canyon to be where they emerged from a dark and self-centered past into the glorious present. They regard the time they lived here with great reverence. It can be that way for us too. Grand Canyon can draw us out of ourselves and into an awareness of how remarkable our world truly is. Although it is challenging and can be dangerous, the Canyon is inspiring as well. There is something nameless that we all seek, beyond mere survival. The Pueblo people found it at Grand Canyon long ago, as we can today….”

The above passage inspired me to write today.

February 19,2014
the warm before the Storm-- birds are chirping-- geese flying-- sun warming-- all around a morning to be grateful for...