I'm unusually busy at work - partly but not entirely because of that long, happy, enlightening month on holiday - hence I'm relying on images to pad out a trickle of posts. Fortunately New Mexico and Colorado provided a wealth of visual material, as did Utah. Here's one of the arches in the Natural Bridges National Monument, near Bluff UT. I love the way in which the eroded rock swirls around, smooth and bright, the structure of its strata visible. The stream and trees add variety and colour, and bring life. It's an intriguing, textured, beautiful scene, so rugged and arid that nature dwarfs human endeavour. Such a landscape invites one to reach out, touch and embrace. It makes me want to clamber down to the water to cool feet tired from travelling, to walk under the arch and gaze up, to sit on the warm rock and drink in the silence. It tells me to stop thinking and feel. To look about and take in. To stop searching. Learning will find me. It's a landscape tactile on a grand scale, a giant aloof catalyst drawing forth our creativity, imagination, insecurity and joy. Like so many places along that journey, I did not spend enough time here.
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