American Idyll

yes, the river knows

Thursday, March 09, 2006

But Never A Repetition




The Grand Canyon of the Colorado is a canyon composed of thousands, of tens of thousands, of gorges. In like manner, each wall of the canyon is a composite structure, a wall composed of many walls, but never a repetition. Every one of these almost innumerable gorges is a world of beauty in itself. In the Grand Canyon there are thousands of gorges like that below Niagara Falls, and there are a thousand Yosemites. Yet all these canyons unite to form one grand canyon, the most sublime spectacle on the earth.
--J. W. Powell

rim shot (top)

autumn comes to Haunted Canyon (middle)

inner gorge near Cottonwood Canyon (below)

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