Rediscovering the Grand Canyon -- in Orlando

 The Grand Canyon. Looking upriver from the North Rim.

As you may know if you've been a frequent reader of this blog, we spent the first two weeks of December in Orlando, settling the affairs of Louise's older sister, Arlene, who passed away at age 95 following hip replacement surgery. 

Arlene had told us many times that she had made all necessary arrangements for her death, and that she was leaving everything to charity. However, she omitted one very important detail: she failed to arrange for someone to contact her attorney and set things in motion when she died. On the evening of November 26, we received a call from the rehabilitation center informing us that Mrs. Jensen had died, and what should they do with the body?

They gave us the name of a nearby funeral home, which we contacted and asked to pick up and hold the body while we worked things out. Then we loaded our luggage and the dog into the redoubtable Kia and set out for Florida. It was a slow and miserable two-day drive in post-Thanksgiving traffic.

Once on scene, we looked through her papers and found the name of her lawyer and also the crematorium where she had pre-paid for the disposal of her body. But everything was very slow moving, and it was more than a week before the lawyer could actually meet with us. We were eventually able to get things worked out. She told us that we should take any small things we wanted of Arlene's possessions from the house. 

And that brings me to the point of this post: The thing I particularly wanted was the 16x32-inch canvas panel of the Grand Canyon that I had given Arlene in 2018 following our trip west. I ordered the print from Shutterfly and had it sent directly to her from the lab without seeing it. So when I first saw it at Arlene's house I was amazed at how much it looked like an intricate painting. It was like seeing the canyon all over again. 

Made with the little Fuji X-T20 camera and the lightly-regarded XC 16-50mm kit lens, it is incredibly detailed. I wish you could see it full size. It's now hanging in our living room.

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