A few days ago, I started thinking about what I should write about the forest fire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and the destruction of the Grand Canyon Lodge and its environs. Yesterday I realized that I have been writing about the North Rim and surrounding areas since I began writing this blog in October 2012.  I don’t think you need many more words from me about this beloved place right now. Below, I have gathered links to some of the earlier articles I have written about the rim. I am also including a handful of the hundreds of photos of I have taken of the North Rim.

• Cookies on the North Rim
• Ain’t No Reason to Go In a Wagon To Town
• North Rim
• Staircase to Heaven, Part 5: Words
• Salad Days, Salad Years: Reverie

The four classic elements: Fire, earth, air, water. North Rim has them all. Fire now, certainly.  Earth is still there and will regenerate.  Air: I can almost smell that fragrance of ponderosas in  the sunlight at 8,000 feet. Water: I remember the old stone drinking fountain outside the lodge. It was the best water I ever tasted, and this from a water girl from Michigan. Showers at Roaring Springs, the music of Bright Angel Creek, the search for Cheyava Falls on a spring break way back when, and the Colorado River.  Changes now, certainly, but the canyon world survives. Love and peace to my canyon friends.

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* I am in the second row on the right wearing sunglasses.