My life here at the grand canyon has been pretty good. I thought I'd post, at the enormous curiosity, and the constant misconceptions at where I'm living.
The first picture is the view about 100 yards from my cabin. You can't see much by way of pictures, because of those tree's always seeming to be in the way. there are outcroppings of rocks that you can stand on, if you insist on taking a good picture, or if you demand on seeing the whole canyon. There are better views than mine too, mine is just a side canyon.
Here is a picture taken from one corner of my
cabin. and the one below is from the corner I took the first picture.
besides the armoire and desk, here is a picture of all the fixtures I have in the cabin. a kitchen, separated by a wall, and a bathroom. these are all along one wall you can see. and the little area that closes the porch a little, is where the toilet is
it's hard to measure accurately with eyes as deceptive as mine, but I might guess it's about 15 x 12 feet. 
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Here is the desert, Sarah. The area that has a field of Lupines, and various grasses, like kentucky blue grass (invasive) thread and needle grass (native), Lupines, sedges, herbs and shrubs. there is a cute little population of deer in this specific area, that consists of a mother and two fawns. This forest is ponderosa pines, and quaking aspen. the dirt you see before the grass is the parking lot.
Most of the North rim, on top of the rim, is this same ponderosa pine forest. The burned area's are generally over run with new mexican locust (which look a lot like mesquite to the untrained eye) and gambel oak. There are very few places where it is hot enough to grow cactus, but where it is hot enough, it is mostly because of the "canyon effect" where the hot air from the canyon creates a micro-climate just at the rim.
the montane desert scrub we've all come to expect from the grand canyon occurs only at certain area's at the north rim, and within the canyon. as does Pinyon/Juniper forests.
Now you know.
