4-23-19

Today was local hiking, so I’ll borrow the space for tomorrow’s epic day trip. I headed north, beyond Flagstaff toward the ponderosa forests and the looming profile of Sunset Crater, a cacophonous jumble of lava rock and cinders bracketed by pines and the snowcapped San Francisco peaks. On the way home, I went north instead of south (so like me!), determined to view Marble Canyon under the late afternoon sky. And then – because why not? – I raced to the South Rim for sunset over the grandest of them all.