Lately occurs
Shinning lights
Expeditiously mellow
Involving a sufficiently complex and universal time for traveling and discovering correlations, scenes from a highway excursion open up into the future and beyond.
“What a long, strange trip it’s been.” – Robert Hunter
High promontory
Infinite volcanic variety
Precipitated into a gorge
Engendering powerful observational sensation, grandeur magnitude exceeding all possible measurement, prognosis, or imitation defines the sublime. The enormity of some visual phenomena is so stunning that complete comprehension is inextricable.
“The walls of the cañon are of gypsum, in some places having an incrustation of lime white as snow, from which the reflected rays of the sun produce a dazzling effect, rendering it painful to look into the gulf.” – Gustavus C. Doane
Sulfur dioxide
Fine particulate matter
Volatile organic compounds
Essential to a modern world economy devoted to supporting an enormous human population, commercial chemical manufacturing still operates as a smokestack industry releasing exhaust gases.
“The system-wide pollution controls Simplot will install will significantly reduce sulfur dioxide emissions, which can cause serious respiratory problems and exacerbate asthma.” – Cynthia Giles
Deeply textured
By all appearances
Splendiferously effulgent
Subjective perspective enlightens the appearance coherence of existential phenomena. The winter’s atmosphere is especially clear, etching light contours into memory plenums facilitating sympathetic awareness promulgation.
“The literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most practiced and adept, a gift and a total surprise.” – Annie Dillard
Agrarian stockpile facility
Towering grain elevator
Gravity distribution
Besides being aesthetically congenial, silos provide an efficient method of long-term crop storage and on-demand distribution. All grain prices are subject to fluctuation at any time.
“Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.” – Socrates
Last stand
Swift water rocky site
Below the dam
A remnant of an earlier settlement incarnation, this old power house persists. Just upstream from the dam, what is left of the old town site of American Falls is under the reservoir water most of the time. Starting in 1925, the Bureau of Reclamation moved the entire municipality to make way for a large dam. The project involved relocating approximately 350 residents and their houses, many businesses, schools, churches, roads, and associated infrastructure to higher ground.
“A dam is monumentally static; it tries to bring a river under control, to regulate its seasonal pattern of floods and low flow.” – Patrick McCully
Cold ways
Winter silence
Duration resolve
Repainting the landscape’s surface, the morning sun appears above the mountains, evoking a quite elegance and calm feeling of enchantment. Winter is filled with warm memories.
“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” – John Burroughs
Hydrogeochemical significance
Contextualize eloquently
Black sand basin
When in contact with cold winter air, hot spring water creates copious steam. The morning sun breaks through to illuminate frozen tree tops in a display of sublime wonder.
“Fill a thin goblet with Crème de Menthe, on the top drop a few “beads” of absinthe, and you will have a faint, only a faint idea of the glistening green glory of Emerald Pool, which can be compared to nothing unless one can imagine liquefied Chinese fire or the unknown, unnamable tones seen under the influence of an anesthetic or during delirium.” – Lee H. Whittlesey
Low level path
Least resistance
Flow meanderings
Looking downstream from a bridge overpass, river geology offers an interesting perspective. Of course overlooking such a vista evokes an eternal question that asks to what extent appearances relate to reality.
“I mean, you could claim that anything is real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!” – J.K. Rowling
Tarpaulin cover
Temporary huts
Produce harvest
Blending into the winter landscape, farmers wait for higher prices by holding a perishable product in a salable and edible condition from one season to another. Market conditions drive distribution.
“Not everyone can be a truffle. Most of us are potatoes. And a potato is a very good thing to be.” – Massimo Bottura