North Rim of the Grand Canyon

10/3 We ran over to the store at the junction and got change to pay for another night at the campground so we could go explore without the weight of the trailer. Map and sights!

 Touring down 67 we were treated to the changing of the colors. The dark Ponderosas made a beautiful backdrop for the yellow of the Quaking Aspen.

The first stop was at the North Rim Visitor's Center which also had lots of cabins, a restaurant with views overlooking the canyon. We took a walk along the rim, gotta love no guard rails! We took so many pictures and it is hard to narrow it down for the blog.

   From the VC we back tracked to a park road that took us to Cape Royal and Point Imperial. Point Imperial was the first stop and while I was walking Iris, a woman came up and asked if I was from Ohio because I was wearing an Ohio State sweatshirt. I said yes and it turns out that we only lived thirty minutes away from one another. They were from Russell's Point on Indian Lake. We also commiserated on the poor performance of the Buckeyes against Indiana.

Next stop Roosevelt Point.

 In this photo you can see a creek running through the canyons. At the cliffs in the middle of the photo near the bottom is a meadow along the river where the ancestral Puebloans planted crops and lived during the summer. They migrated to the top of the cliffs were we stood and lived in small huts. 

 Geologist Clarance Dutton called many of the formations "temples" because they resembled temples built by human hands.

Wotans Throne

Vishnu Temple after the Indian Temples.

 Some shots from the cell camera. Sometimes I think they are better than the camera.

I agreed with Mister Dutton, many of the marvels that are now national parks are glorious temples. They were built by the master architect to bring honor to Him so that as we stand on the precipice, gaze up at the stars or marvel at the trees, we can feel closer to God. Reading old journals about the pioneers, emigrants and explorers they saw the Creator in everything and praised him in their writings. I feel closer to God in nature than any other place.
After marveling at the beauty, we rolled back to the campsite and enjoyed a campfire to ward off the chill of the high mountain air.