Highlights, quick and dirty.
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pecuniumSights.
Animalia.
Collared Lizard
Juvenile White Tail deer
Juvenile Golden Eagle
Mature Golden Eagle
Yellowhead (or Flannel Mouth) SuckerFish (plural, juvenile, and small adult).
Dragonfly nymph
Marmot
Long-Footed Ferret, eating a vole; or some such
Red Spotted toad
Tadpoles and Pollywogs
and
Gymnogyps californianus; commonly known as the California Condor
Places
Colorado City Ariz. Strange, and depressing. Buildings of odd size, and indistinct purpose. No businesses, nor yet (though to be fair (?) it was always Sunday morning when we passed through) people. I'm not sure how much of the nature of the place was real, or my knowing who lives there.
The Paria. Stunning. The sandstone is hard, and has not what one thinks of as bedding planes. It started life as a huge barrow of sand dunes, and the hills, rills, and troughs are kept, cut away by water and dropped by gravity. The most amazing aspect of them is what one doesn't see. The walls fell, one can see the cleavages. It wasn't water which made the canyon sheer and high, at least not running water. But none of those huge slabs (some of which much have been a few hundred cubic yards of rock) remain evident on the floor of the river (no, there are a couple of places). The water has eaten them to sand and clay, and carried them to the sea.
Shiprock. Huge, present, brooding. Every where it can be seen, it dominates the skyline.
Monument Valley. We did the drive from Kabab to Moab in the mid-day, this probably increased the granduer and magnitude of the place, because it was sudden. We passed through a cut and Shiprock was there. We drove, and it remained. We passed through another cut and it was gone. But the buttes, red and orange and vermillion, remained. One was lost, only when another blocked it from view.
Moab. A piece of somewhere else (Santa Monica/West Seattle and a slice of San Francisco, rolled into one, and plopped in country which looks fake when Disney faithfully replicates it), dropped into Utah. Hippies and typical Mormons, living side by side. I have a 14 oz. pt glass; picked up from atop a trash can. One can park for four hours in a one-hour zone, and not get a ticket.
The Manti-La Sal. A 10,000 ft. high range, rising up from the 4,000 foot basin of Utah. Cool, green, with seeping water and a peak (Mt. Peale) which climbs to 12,271 ft.) Deer, and aspen, Spruce and Trout. Golden Flies and Beetles. Too easy to get to.
Red Canyon. This is where Disney found the geology it copied for Big Thunder Mountain. It looks just the same. There are a pair of undercuts, tunnelled out to make the road (lest it fall into the Sevier River) which have been treated with sprayed on cement. Looks just like Disney. Amazing colors. Kneel down and it seems one has crushed Tang onto one's trousers.
Establishments:
Nedra's Too. Nice enough SW/Mex. Good Machaca, adequate Carnitas (more like pulled pork) very good salsa. Serves food until 10:30. Kanab.
Outdoor Outfitters and Coffee Bar. Espresso drinks and books, clothes and waling sticks. Great folks, good gear, decent prices. Kanab.
Back of Beyond Books. Wonderful, and ecclectic, selection of books. Hillermans, "Fly on the Wall" in German. If you see a book you want, make certain to peruse the sale table, as one can find books which are listed at full price, on the shelf, for as little as 25 percent of cover on the table. Moab
A silver jewelry shop. Just down the road from Back of Beyond. I think the owner cruises the reservations and finds things in trading posts which have been left for good. I bought a wonderful armilla (I've been reading on the Roman Legions, and so that was how I thought of it. The Legions gave armillae as modern armies give medals, its an open braceley) of Zuni Squash blossoms, with tourquoise and coral. A style which went out of favor 25 years ago). Moab.
Red Rock Bakery. Good sandwiches, decent coffee (not as good as the place in Kanab, but better than most places) and internet. Buy something and it's $6 an hour, if they charge you. Just want access and it's $12. It's where I posted my piece from the road.
Animalia.
Collared Lizard
Juvenile White Tail deer
Juvenile Golden Eagle
Mature Golden Eagle
Yellowhead (or Flannel Mouth) SuckerFish (plural, juvenile, and small adult).
Dragonfly nymph
Marmot
Long-Footed Ferret, eating a vole; or some such
Red Spotted toad
Tadpoles and Pollywogs
and
Gymnogyps californianus; commonly known as the California Condor
Places
Colorado City Ariz. Strange, and depressing. Buildings of odd size, and indistinct purpose. No businesses, nor yet (though to be fair (?) it was always Sunday morning when we passed through) people. I'm not sure how much of the nature of the place was real, or my knowing who lives there.
The Paria. Stunning. The sandstone is hard, and has not what one thinks of as bedding planes. It started life as a huge barrow of sand dunes, and the hills, rills, and troughs are kept, cut away by water and dropped by gravity. The most amazing aspect of them is what one doesn't see. The walls fell, one can see the cleavages. It wasn't water which made the canyon sheer and high, at least not running water. But none of those huge slabs (some of which much have been a few hundred cubic yards of rock) remain evident on the floor of the river (no, there are a couple of places). The water has eaten them to sand and clay, and carried them to the sea.
Shiprock. Huge, present, brooding. Every where it can be seen, it dominates the skyline.
Monument Valley. We did the drive from Kabab to Moab in the mid-day, this probably increased the granduer and magnitude of the place, because it was sudden. We passed through a cut and Shiprock was there. We drove, and it remained. We passed through another cut and it was gone. But the buttes, red and orange and vermillion, remained. One was lost, only when another blocked it from view.
Moab. A piece of somewhere else (Santa Monica/West Seattle and a slice of San Francisco, rolled into one, and plopped in country which looks fake when Disney faithfully replicates it), dropped into Utah. Hippies and typical Mormons, living side by side. I have a 14 oz. pt glass; picked up from atop a trash can. One can park for four hours in a one-hour zone, and not get a ticket.
The Manti-La Sal. A 10,000 ft. high range, rising up from the 4,000 foot basin of Utah. Cool, green, with seeping water and a peak (Mt. Peale) which climbs to 12,271 ft.) Deer, and aspen, Spruce and Trout. Golden Flies and Beetles. Too easy to get to.
Red Canyon. This is where Disney found the geology it copied for Big Thunder Mountain. It looks just the same. There are a pair of undercuts, tunnelled out to make the road (lest it fall into the Sevier River) which have been treated with sprayed on cement. Looks just like Disney. Amazing colors. Kneel down and it seems one has crushed Tang onto one's trousers.
Establishments:
Nedra's Too. Nice enough SW/Mex. Good Machaca, adequate Carnitas (more like pulled pork) very good salsa. Serves food until 10:30. Kanab.
Outdoor Outfitters and Coffee Bar. Espresso drinks and books, clothes and waling sticks. Great folks, good gear, decent prices. Kanab.
Back of Beyond Books. Wonderful, and ecclectic, selection of books. Hillermans, "Fly on the Wall" in German. If you see a book you want, make certain to peruse the sale table, as one can find books which are listed at full price, on the shelf, for as little as 25 percent of cover on the table. Moab
A silver jewelry shop. Just down the road from Back of Beyond. I think the owner cruises the reservations and finds things in trading posts which have been left for good. I bought a wonderful armilla (I've been reading on the Roman Legions, and so that was how I thought of it. The Legions gave armillae as modern armies give medals, its an open braceley) of Zuni Squash blossoms, with tourquoise and coral. A style which went out of favor 25 years ago). Moab.
Red Rock Bakery. Good sandwiches, decent coffee (not as good as the place in Kanab, but better than most places) and internet. Buy something and it's $6 an hour, if they charge you. Just want access and it's $12. It's where I posted my piece from the road.
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Date: 2005-07-09 12:33 am (UTC)Zuni Squash blossoms, with tourquoise and coral. A style which went out of favor 25 years ago
Not with me! Possibly my favorite single jewelry design. Would it be possible to see a picture of your armilla?
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Date: 2005-07-09 03:07 am (UTC)But, you may have to wait until I have returned from Ukraine.
TK
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Date: 2005-07-09 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-09 08:31 pm (UTC)Thanks for the word "armilla" -- I'm looking forward to the photograph of this Zuni one, despite a general preference for the Navajo style sandstone-cast silver ones with just a bit of (intensely-colored) turquoise.