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
- Exploring Yosemite Valley
- One of my favorite things we did during our short stay in Yosemite was to take a long evening walk through Yosemite Valley. Since few people were left in the park by this time, it was like we had traveled back in time to a less hectic era.
- Raven Glen Forest Preserve
- This past weekend, I was driving south on Route 45 near the Wisconsin border when I noticed a sign for Raven Glen Forest Preserve.
- Reviving the Dispatches
- It’s been a while. I suppose you could call my lack of blogging an intermission. A dry spell. A quite interlude. Writer’s block. Whatever label you give it, there’s no denying that the words around here have evaporated faster than dew drops in the Mohave.
