Lotsa Redrock
This is one of those vistas that made me think of the scene from Lawrence of Arabia in which TE Lawrence and Sherif Ali stood at the edge of Nefud Desert, which of course they had to cross in order to attack Aqaba by the land. And although trudging across the Nefud was Lawrence’s rather brilliant idea, when actually faced with the task, he found it less than entirely appealing.
At the edge of the harshest part of the Nefud, the stretch of sand that Sherif Ali called the “Sun’s Anvil”, Lawrence paused and stared out over the sweltering horizon. He turned to Ali and snapped:
And how much more of THAT is there?
I know how he must have felt. Of course, Arches is no Nefud, but then I’m no TE Lawrence. Fortuantely, the stretch of land in these photos wasn’t one I actually had to cross (the photos were taken looking sideways from the trail). But that’s irrelevant to the point: I still felt as if I had THAT to cross.
Assortment
- South Saint Vrain Canyon
- On my recent trips up to Rocky Mountain National Park, I’ve opted to take a route that follows Colorado Highway 7, also known as the Peak to Peak Scenic Byway.
- Around Appledore Island
- Despite the stressful, negative aspects of my recent visit to Appledore Island, which I described in detail in my previous post, I also found the island to possess a great and unique beauty. That’s what I’d like to focus on in this post.
- Snow Day
- It snowed last night and most of today and although the total accumulation didn’t top two inches, it made everything look wonderfully white. It also screwed up traffic across the midlands.
