Just Grass, a Few Shrubs and Flowers
“[There’s not a tree anywhere,] only grass everywhere filled with little pink and blue and white dots of intense color.“
Beartooth Highway MT Even these beautifully phrased flower descriptions of page 110, are poetically getting us ready, by analogy, for the “ High Country of the Mind“. During my trip, I captured in photographs an example of practically every flower I saw. (See my “Flowers” Album.) However, in the highest elevations, such as the area of WayPt =136w at 9554 feet and higher I looked for, but did not see “pink and blue flowers“ until well after the snow fields and return to elevations below 9500 feet. What are we to make of this absence? 1) My travel thru here was almost a month earlier in the season than the Narrator’s. 2) The Narrator must compress into a few short paragraphs a vast travel experience, many times and elevations. 3) OK, so it is. Each ZMM Traveler can expect to see the high country “differently”, whether philosophic or real. Certainly in these quick sketches, we catch the Narrator’s thrill of the high country scene real and by analogy, the scene philosophic!
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(Photo = 106-0619 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt =136w)
![Just Grass, a Few Shrubs and Flowers “[There’s not a tree anywhere,] only grass everywhere filled with little pink and blue and white dots of intense color.“ Beartooth Highway MT Even these beautifully phrased flower descriptions of page 110, are poetically getting us ready, by analogy, for the “ High Country of the Mind“. During my trip, I captured in photographs an example of practically every flower I saw. (See my “Flowers” Album.) However, in the highest elevations, such as the area of WayPt =136w at 9554 feet and higher I looked for, but did not see “pink and blue flowers“ until well after the snow fields and return to elevations below 9500 feet. What are we to make of this absence? 1) My travel thru here was almost a month earlier in the season than the Narrator’s. 2) The Narrator must compress into a few short paragraphs a vast travel experience, many times and elevations. 3) OK, so it is. Each ZMM Traveler can expect to see the high country “differently”, whether philosophic or real. Certainly in these quick sketches, we catch the Narrator’s thrill of the high country scene real and by analogy, the scene philosophic! ************************************ (Photo = 106-0619 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt =136w)](http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/albums/album07/106_0619_IMG.sized.jpg "Just Grass, a Few Shrubs and Flowers “[There’s not a tree anywhere,] only grass everywhere filled with little pink and blue and white dots of intense color.“ Beartooth Highway MT Even these beautifully phrased flower descriptions of page 110, are poetically getting us ready, by analogy, for the “ High Country of the Mind“. During my trip, I captured in photographs an example of practically every flower I saw. (See my “Flowers” Album.) However, in the highest elevations, such as the area of WayPt =136w at 9554 feet and higher I looked for, but did not see “pink and blue flowers“ until well after the snow fields and return to elevations below 9500 feet. What are we to make of this absence? 1) My travel thru here was almost a month earlier in the season than the Narrator’s. 2) The Narrator must compress into a few short paragraphs a vast travel experience, many times and elevations. 3) OK, so it is. Each ZMM Traveler can expect to see the high country “differently”, whether philosophic or real. Certainly in these quick sketches, we catch the Narrator’s thrill of the high country scene real and by analogy, the scene philosophic! ************************************ (Photo = 106-0619 ...... ZMM Page = 110 ...... WayPt =136w)")