Arizona is a magnificent place to live.  You can go from zero to 130 degrees in a few days.  You can go from 130 to 85 degrees in an hour or less.  You can sit in the hot tub and look at the snow on the mountains.  You can be there in 1/2 hour.  Arizona is the second fastest growing state in the US.  If you are into pollution, construction and traffic jams this is the place to be.  If a person can be "in love" with a place, I'm IN LOVE with the Grand Canyon.  "Walk in Beauty" is taken from a Navajo poem - author unknown.  There are several versions of the poem.  You can stand in the same place all day, take photos of the GC and you'll never have a duplicate.  I had over 500 pictures of the GC.

 

Navajo prayer

Beauty before me I walk
Beauty behind me I walk
Beauty above me I walk
Beauty below me I walk
Beauty all around me
I walk In beauty all is made whole
In beauty all is restored

 

 

 

Navajo Nightway Chant

"In beauty I walk...
With beauty behind me I walk
With beauty above me I walk
With beauty around me I walk

 

   

Navajo Indian blessing which reads:

"Beauty is before me,
and
Beauty behind me above me and
below me hovers the beautiful.

I am surrounded by,
I am immersed in it.
In my youth, I am aware of it,
and, in old age,
I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail.
In
beauty, it is begun.
In
beauty, it is ended."

 

Grand Canyon - Arizona by michel27.

 

Walk in beauty, Maryann