In 1999, after a long winter, Vickie and I decided to plan a trip to the South Rim over the 3-day Easter weekend. Our flight to Phoenix was delayed several hours due to a heavy storm there. We arrived at the rim barely in time for sunset on Good Friday. Early in the day on Saturday, it began to snow so hard that visibility was near zero. Retreating to our room, we kept hoping the storm would ease up enough to let us get out and photograph. We knew we had to leave on Sunday evening for a return flight home.
By mid-morning on Sunday, the snow was first beginning to show signs of tapering off, so we went on a hike through the snow toward the Rim. Most of our hike, there was still too much snow to be able to see anything of the canyon, but a few minutes of brief interruption allowed me to capture the image above.
Nikon F3, Fujichrome Velvia, Nikkor WA zoom.
One more brief lull in the snowfall let me get the image above. Then, the snow resumed!
Finally, in late afternoon, the snow let up and the sun began to dart in and out of the clouds. This was the view from Moran Point.
In Vickie's scrapbook of our trip, she included the following quote (attributed to Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey): "Just when it's tempting to think days are predictable...something extraordinary happens."
My friends, may you also have an extraordinary Easter this year!
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