This high plane (5000+ feet) outside of Prescott and just west of the foothills of Mingus mountain, even with the trees stripped of leaves and the grasses bleached white from the cold dry air, is beyond beautiful. The sky is a clear bright blue that now I can remember running free under as a child. The sky is a big blue inverted bowl stretching from where you stand to the horizon - it is the feeling of freedom, oneness with the land. GingerV
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light from the glittering stars
Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free
The breezes so balmy and light
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Oh, I love those wild flow'rs in this dear land of ours
The curlew, I love to hear scream
And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks
That graze on the mountaintops green
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day"
You lucky woman!!
ReplyDeleteLovely area of Arizona. If I ever go back to the States, it will be hee are somewhere in the 4 corners region.
Rio to Prescott...what a change!
the four corners - the place of origen of 'the people' the navajo indian. If you look on a geological map this was one area not flooded - a high area when all of central USA was a shallow sea. read some of the 'stories of the People', that in the last 25-50 years have finally been writen down and published - suprisingly very simular to the stories in the bible.
ReplyDeleteI have that same photo...somewhere, we took a month off and hit all four states, including boring Kansas, poor Dorothy! After that drive we would never be the same. We also found some good wines...great post, and thanks!
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ReplyDeleteI love where the mountains meet the desert. I was raised in Nevada where the area looks similar to this in places.
I am also fascinated by stories of "The People" (Dine')...or the Navajo (as they were called in the area where I was born in New Mexico.) I've been to the four-corners when I was very small and do not remember it. I've heard recently that it's actually in a different place than originally calculated!!! That's got to be wild for the place that is the tourist attraction!
The 4 corners is probably the states trying to share the tourist revenues, but the birth of the 'nation' is close to there because the indian stories (verbal until as recent as the 60s) talk of the high plains and flat mesas. their stories put to poetry is also very beautiful.
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