Last week the sky provided quite a show from the North Rim with wonderful skies at Grand Canyon National Park where I have the privilege to work, live and play.
The sunset view from my RV home often lights up the sky with a blaze of colors.
Even a soft pastel sky brings delight driving through the 2006 Warm fire with an eastern view of the Vermilion Cliffs.
When the sun sinks low and the last light strikes the temples clouds glow over the canyon.
Watching as rain slides across the canyon and wondering if it will actually fall on the North Rim. It did.
The magic of inversion when fog drifts in and out, swirling around the temples and buttes, window views into a world of wonder.
And to finish out my work week, yesterday, the reward of a rainbow spanning the canyon after a gentle rain.
What more can a Grand Canyon Park Ranger ask for except to wish you were here to enjoy it with me.
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these photos are spectacular. you’re blessed to have such skies!
Thanks Becky. I feel blessed to be here every day.
What an amazing set of pictures Gaelyn. I would love to have seen those skies but especially be there during the storms. Very special!
Thanks Chris, this is very special and what I’ve been telling visitors for a week. Maybe next year plan an August visit.
I am . just . filled up. So, so beautiful. Thanks for sharing these!
Thanks Linda. Wish you could be here to see it in real time.
A beautiful serie of sky-photos!
Thanks. Couldn’t have gone wrong this week at the canyon.
Hello gaelyn, gorgeous captures of the skies over the canyon! I love the first shot and the rainbow capture is beautiful. Well done!
Happy skywatching and have a great weekend!
Thank you Eileen. This was certainly a week of skies to behold.
Beautiful, dramatic captures, Gaelyn! The rainbow is awesome! A lovely world you have indeed!! Have a great weekend!!
Thanks Sylvia. I do live at an ideal location. Enjoy your weekend.
Gorgeous sky shots and magnificent views.
Thanks Karen. No bad views at Grand Canyon.
Beautiful! I especially like pics 1 and 3, and the rainbow is the best of all.
Thanks Janie. It’s been an amazing week.
Wow Gaelyn these are stunning photographs. Did you really see all these skies AND the rainbow in one week over that magnificent canyon? What a place you live and work. I wish I was there sharing it with you to see it in person. I was thinking of you when playing dress up. Wrote about it in today’s post which should be up within the hour if my internet connection will cooperate. Hope you see it.
This was definitely a sky week at the canyon. I wish you were here too. But love following your adventure.
wow what a privilege to work in this amazing place. your images are gorgeous.
Thanks Felicia. I do feel privileged at the canyon.
Wow, Gaelyn, you have surpassed even yourself. What a group of photos.
Thanks Yogi. Learning Lightroom is helping a lot.
Wow, fabulous shots of this gorgeous place!
Thanks Karen. It is a gorgeous place for sure, in all moods.
These photos are truly amazing. I love the different colour compositions in the sky. Thank you for sharing 🙂
Thank you Nicole. I love to share the canyon.
What fabulous shots! You really do have a front row seat to the best views.
Thanks. When looking down I feel like I’m in the bleachers.
These are beautiful Gaelyn. I’m always amazed at how different clouds can look. We just think, oh, clouds… but they fascinating to observe. Great shots of the canyon!
The clouds are ever changing at the canyon. Good thing I also look down at the rocks or I’d fall in watching the sky. 😉
A week of never ending beauty. Don’t we have such a lot to be grateful for?
Yes, we do have much to be grateful for.
I remember stopping at the Grand Canyon Airport on the way home from a college airmeet with several students in small Cessna 150 airplanes. Because the airport is at a relative high elevation, it is hard for the little planes to climb on warmer days. I’ll never forget being the last plane to take off (we were the faculty advisers) and watching the last little puddle jumper struggling to climb and seemingly drop over the edge into oblivion. At least he instantly gained a lot of altitude above ground level. He was a lot higher than he appeared from our vantage point a few thousand feet above. – Margy
Such a marvelous memory of Grand Canyon. On some of these cloudy days I’d bet there were no flights over the canyon.
This post is really a treat! Beautiful photos, and makes me want to return for a visit.
Thanks Peter. Let me know when you’re coming.
The landscape and these skies … so amazing! These are fantastic photos!
Thanks Mary. Grand Canyon is an amazing place.
Absolutely stunning photos as always. You always show us a new view even if you took a photo there before. Love all your Grand Canyon photos.
Thanks. Never a bad view of the canyon.
Who can resist a rainbow. Fabulous Gaelyn. We’ve had a lovely monsoon season in Tucson too.
Thanks Kat. Isn’t monsoon season wonderful.