Dateline: Springdale, Utah. Springdale is the small Utah town just outside the western entry station of Zion National Park. Like many old Utah towns it has stone-lined mini-canals running along the city streets. Mormon irrigation canals bring water down from the mountains all over the arid mountain west.
If you haven't seen Zion National Park, you've missed one of nature's truly spectacular places. Sheer red sandstone cliffs rise many hundreds of feet above the Virgin River. At Zion you see these cliffs from the bottom, rather than the top as you do at the Grand Canyon or Bryce.
At the other DrC's blog (cruztalking.blogspot.com) you'll see her pictures of this amazing place. Zion isn't an easy place to take pictures, everything is simply too big and we humans are too small.
We have returned to Zion many times. We came here together for the first time in 1974; I came with my parents in 1950. A wonderful thing - national parks don't change. Decade after decade, one sees the same natural wonders.
Yesterday afternoon we took the walk from the Temple of Sinawava to the Narrows. This is an easy stroll along the Virgin River as the canyon walls get closer and closer together, until they are maybe 30 feet apart and rise upward in sheer red walls perhaps nearly a thousand feet. Amazing....
