Photos: Phoenix, Grand Canyon

Flickr photos from the album 2003 - Sedona by domesticat

The view from the scenic overlook. If you look carefully, you can see the lowest point of the road in the canyon.Oak Creek Canyon overlook
 by domesticat.Another view. I knew I wasn't managing to capture the scope of the canyon, but I had to try.Oak Creek Canyon overlook
 by domesticat.As you leave the canyon, and approach Sedona, the rocks become redder.Leaving Oak Creek Canyon
 by domesticat.Like this.Very red rocks
 by domesticat.Another view. I couldn't decide which would be best to keep, so I kept both.Cathedral Rock - 1 of 4
 by domesticat.I figured this would be the best shot I had of Cathedral Rock.Cathedral Rock - 2 of 4
 by domesticat.It's pretty difficult to take a bad photo, to be honest. But we did wish we could get closer.Cathedral Rock - 3 of 4
 by domesticat....and Kara found a way.Cathedral Rock - 4 of 4
 by domesticat.I never would have given it a second chance. Thankfully, Kara didn't agree.Primitive road?
 by domesticat.The sunset begins.Sunset - 1 of 5
 by domesticat.
10 out of 17 on Flickr

[full photoset on flickr]

So that's what the photos from the Grand Canyon look like. I wasn't able to get Matt and Kara's computer to play nicely with my card reader, so even looking at the photos had to wait until I got to California, but a few of them were actually worth the wait.There are about twenty photos in this batch. I took more, but decided to prune out the obvious duplicates. I'll post the photos from Oak Creek Canyon and Sedona separately. Right now I have a choice: sit here and work on photos, or make myself some lunch and enjoy an exquisitely sunny day.

I have a 4 p.m. play date with a very exuberant Labrador retriever, whose day job is to be a hearing dog for one of Noah and David's friends. We're going down to the beach, and we're planning on having a lovely romp.

Sunset and rock formation photos can wait. It's time to play.

Noah's photo. Playing Frisbee on the beach at sunset with Julie and her hearing dog, Matea.Julie, Matea, and Amy
 by domesticat.
["Julie, Matea, and Amy" -- original on flickr]

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Comments

On , brad said...
The circles are irrigation patterns. They're circles because at the centre of each one there's a massive sprinkler.

On , brad said...
By the way, nice pictures. =)

On , gfmorris said...
Brad is right, and I concur on the photos.

On , Dave said...
I concur as well, having driven cross-country a few times and seen them from the ground. Though don't think the "massive sprinkler" is some monolithic behemoth that rises from the ground at the center and sprays a thousand-yard jet of water... it's actually a big wheeled frame that runs the radius of the field with a pipe along the top. The water pressure turns the wheels and then the water's sprayed from sprinkler heads along the top. It slowly rolls around the field that way... :)