"Do nothing to mar its grandeur for the ages have been at work on it and man cannot improve it. Keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you." 

                      - Theodore Roosevelt on the Grand Canyon

Photos taken around the rim, hiking into and watching the sunset at Grand Canyon National Park:

Two quotes from Eudora Welty's writings accompany this preview of photos from my transformative adventure to the American west: 

"They changed something in my life: each trip made its particular revelation though I could not have found words for it." 

"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily - perhaps not possibly - chronological." 

These photos were taken on the way to and inside these national parks: Grand Canyon, Arches, and Zion - amazing places!