The two interact. You see beauty and it resonates within. You experience peace and it colors how you see the world.
We take our national parks for granted. We shouldn't. They are some of the finest in the world. It is not just the preservation of nature they encapture but something more.
Two of the finest I have seen are Canyon de Chelly and Colorado Monument. For different reasons.
The Grand Canyon writ small ... |
Colorado Monument is the face of carved mountain beauty writ large. Here you can walk right to the edge and stare at grandeur across and below and above. And sense it staring back at you, small as you are.
... yet in incredible beauty. |
Colorado Monument twenty miles west of Grand Junction offers vistas few will ever see or see again.
A rare shot of Bus Companion. [Click on photo to enlarge.] |
Need proof that the planet is alive? Look no further.
What follows are imperfect glimpses in a magical kingdom. [Click on photos to enlarge.]
JNR
Gorgeous photos John....thanks for sharing....I so love the southwest....
ReplyDeleteI have got to go back to the southwest. With yours and Sue's descriptions as well as others lately... I must have missed something.
ReplyDeleteThese photographs are beautiful. I usually just went through New Mexico and Arizona on my way elsewhere. However, one of those times, I decided I'd finally do a touristy thing and made the swing off I-40 to the Grand Canyon. Absolutely breathtaking.
I'm planning on a trip back up Highway 1 on the west coast and this time? I'm going to explore these two states.
Beautiful pictures.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful stuff. Of all the other places I've seen (and I have to admit to a little bit of anti-jingoism here, which is just as bad as its opposite, in its way) I have never seen the scenes that you are seeing, Nothing like them.
ReplyDeleteMichele used to try to decribe to me what the South West looked like, and she was never shy in her descriptions, and she shared the coffee table book that I suppose everyone in Arizona sees and gets used too . . . .
But nothing as clean, neat, and personal as this. Nicely done.