HooDoo You Love?

"HooDoo You Love?" is a phrase I saw at the Bryce Canyon National Park visitor center on their T-Shirts and mugs.  In case you're wondering HooDoo's are the geological formations caused by water getting into cracks, freezing and thawing and erosion of the sandstone into pinnacle shapes...sometimes referred to as a fairy or tent.  The photo below is good example of HooDoos.

As you can see Bryce Canyon got some snow last night.  In the place we stayed it was about 4 inches, but in higher elevations of the park 6+ inches.  When we woke up this morning, it was still very overcast and some snow flurries.  Weather apps on our phones forecasted some sun by 10 am, so after breakfast, we headed to the park.  We found very quickly that only about 10% of the park was open as there is only one main road through the park and it was closed after a certain point.  We went to the furthest point we could and took some photos and I could quickly see that they were dark.  

I felt it was not a photographer's best-case scenario, so we went back to hotel room for a while. That's a definite advantage to being over 62 years old, we both have lifetime passes to the national parks and monuments.  Therefore, we can go back and forth to the parks without having to pay $30 per/vehicle.  

The clouds did start lifting and sun started peaking out, so we took a drive north for a bit and saw three pronghorn antelope and then went east on Hwy 12 which goes through the park and got that top photo.  Turned around and went into the park.  

Wow!  HooDoo I love?   love HooDoos!  So many HooDoos and so many photos that I took.  Here's one that's approximately the same scene as above, yet the sun is out 

Once we got done with several observation points, we found the main road had opened.  We were excited as we wanted to see the Natural Bridge about nine miles down the road. However, when we got down to within a mile of the bridge observation point, the road was closed again. As it turned out we did see about half of the park.

Here's one that Paul liked... reminded him of the Easter Island figures.  The figures, known as the “Moai,” were carved by the Rapa Nui people on a remote Chilean island in the Pacific Ocean. 

Bryce Canyon scenes are surreal!  So glad we got to see this natural wonder.  At some points today, all I could think of was the song, "How Great Thou Art."  A person could sing that song at both Zion and Bryce Canyons.  So glad and thankful that we saw both parks.  

Oh Lord, my God
When I in awesome wonder
Consider all the works
Thy hands have made....How great thou art!