A Virgin River Runs Through It.

 

 

 

 

A recent trip found us in Zion National Park the day before the Government Shut Down.  We walked along the Riverside Trail which dead ends into the south entrance of the Narrows.  The Virgin River has carved the canyons, and molded the park.  The river definitely runs through it.  Cool breezes dance from the river and echoes from ghosts past can be heard if you listen.  Any trail within Zion can bring out the adventurer spirit within us.  Red cliffs soar upwards, and at times the explorer is left with a sense of the power of the river, the cathedrals of red rock and the canopy of blue skies above.

"Eventually,
all things merge into one...
and a river runs through it.
The river was cut
by the world's great flood...
and runs over rocks
from the basement of time.
On some of the rocks
are timeless raindrops.
Under the rocks are the words..
and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters..." Norman Mclane, A River Runs Through It