Sky Watch Friday - Grand Canyon National Park

View east from Plateau Point Trail

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Sky Watch Friday - Another Yarnell Sunset

All it takes it clouds. Otherwise, the sky is a mellow orange, violet and blue that just doesn’t photograph well. This is my western view. And it happens almost every night.

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Sky Watch Friday - Salton Sea Sunrise

The Salton Sea is located in southeastern California at 227 feet below sea level. This unique saline land-locked body of water is a critical part of the Pacific Flyway attracting hundreds of species of birds to its wetland habitat.

I camped along the Sea back in winter of 1996 while on a major road trip which you can read more about in next week’s My World Tuesday.

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Sky Watch Friday - Mt Hood sunrise

Mt. Hood in Oregon 1996

Mt Hood, one of 15 volcanoes in the North Cascades of British Columbia, Canada, Washington, Oregon and Northern California. Named by European explorers on Captain George Vancouver's 1792 discovery expedition after a British Admiral, Samuel Hood.

Mt Hood was originally known by the native Klickitat, Cowlitz, and Multnomah people as Wyeast. His father, the Great Spirit, made him Chief of the people on the south side of the mighty river (today known as the Columbia River). His brother Pahtoe—who we know as Mt Adams—was made Chief of the people north of the river. For long times all the people traveled back and forth across the river on the stone Bridge of the Gods and they passed by the beautiful Loowit, Keeper of the Fire—now known as Mount Saint Helens. The brothers both came to love Loowit and both asked her to be his wife. She could not decide and the brothers began to quarrel. Thunder roared and lightning flashed as they threw hot rocks and spewed fire. The earth trembled and broke the bridge. When the Great Spirit saw this he smote the three lovers turning them into mountains of stone and ice.

Mt. Adams in Washington 1996

See Gypsy life of a seasonal park ranger – My World Tuesday further down the page for another photo of Mt St. Helens.

Mt. St. Helens in Washington 1996

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Glow In - Skywatch Friday

Glow In - Dolores, CO 2005

During 2005 I worked at Mesa Verde National Park in southwest Colorado. A little north of the park lays the small community of Dolores that hosted a hot-air balloon festival, which I missed during the day due to working. But at night, the balloons glowed. Unfortunately, bad weather with high wind was moving in so this is the only balloon that filled, and not for long.

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Desert sunset - Skywatch Friday

I’m not a morning person so I see more sunsets than sunrises and the AZ dessert is a spectacular place for sky watching. This particular view was taken during my first winter in the dessert (1997) camping on BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land in southern Arizona for weeks at a time. I was equally fascinated with the saguaros standing tall with arms reaching towards the sky.

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