On either side of the Truckee great sierras rose like walls, castellated, embattled, rifted, skirted and crowned with pines of enormous size, the walls now and then breaking apart to show some snow-slashed peak rising into a heaven of intense, unclouded, sunny blue.
***
They were more brilliant than those incredible colors in which painters array the fiery hills of Moab and the Desert, and one could not believe them for ever uninhabited, for on them rose, as in the East, the similitude of stately fortresses, not the gray castellated towers of feudal Europe, but gay, massive, Saracenic architecture, the outgrowth of the solid rock.
have you ever heard rocks described so? That woman could WRITE!!
ReplyDeletehttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=117682847911520651684.00046379742f50290fcac&z=2