Antelope Canyon Photo Bomb, Part One in Day by Day

There’s a lot going on right now. Lots of writing and pursuing grants. Had a belated birthday celebration with a friend (his is at the end of September, mine is in early October and between all four schedules, we manage to get around to celebrating in late October/early November, so we feel downright prompt! Since it’s my turn to do the birthday meal this year, I opted to cook and decided on a lobster feast: an appetizer of lobster cake (smaller, next time) & cheese and crackers, salad greens topped with artichoke hearts/hearts of palm/tomatoes/smoked oysters/and other goodies, lobster macaroni & cheese, lobster rolls, and cake and ice cream, all paired with a 2005 La Valetto Bordeaux. Yum! We’d already exchanged gifts, but they surprised me with a generous gift to the non-profit I started and some pictures of me and Nick, taken in 2005. I still need to scan those, but decided to share my eldest son’s pictures in one big photo bomb, so apologies ahead of time if loading takes for-evah.

Upper Antelope canyon is underground. The red rock ground suddenly splits into caverns carved by eons of flash flooding erosion.

The warning system is better these days, but people do get caught by sudden floods. The lucky ones just get stranded for hours and hours. The less fortunate die. The beauty found in the caverns, however, draw crowds willing to descend a long set of steps.

The bottom was red sand, eroded rock:

The guide threw the dirt in the air so you could see the wind swirl it around:

And this was weird: a random rock jammed into a hollowed out niche:

Looking up and around:

It’s late. I’ll try to do family pics next.