Show t the beauty y of an oft he elected spot in vive if U wonderland photographs photographed to depict a geologic yesterday seen through a fringe of today A ts af 1 ap ata r V 4 7 Q 1 I 1 A 4 a ay ol 01 1 4 i J 4 y 2 y 41 i r t 0 4 1 s 1 S J 2 w 1 4 4 XAM U 1 41 r V 4 amz 44 A S al 7 U vv t 1 s 1 t r i tt i 0 4 i ti V 4 V aek of A x A A scene in the mancos shale formation taken near cainville bainville Cain ville in wayne wonderland in an october sun the mancos shale is the low lying mound with sharp upper edge of steel gray color standing out in the dist free this side of the larger mountain mass and the same what a pretty scene and just as pleasing to the mind in study as it is captivating visual jy ly through the parting of the trees and above the sere and yel low of the passing year one looks through TODAY upon a YESTER DAY today with its little frings of leaves stiff and turning in color dying with the year about to close yesterday a flood plain through which a stream grinds at the soil as it has done yesterdays afore and will do tomorrow a living thing outlasting phase of leaf from green to withered and brown leaves a link from yesterday to to day one ope knows that the gnawing stream has cut from cap rock to its present bed busy for many millions of years and knowing its task is not yet done never done then abruptly rising from the flood plain pausing in the flow of time only as long as to form the narrow ledge of rocks seen begins the mancos shale etched furrowed gullied with the years ears the years of more distant time then as the years recede the thel mountain rises mass above mass backward into the abys of unfold ing years it rises in keeping to the piling up of thousand times a thousand years comes change as the ledge of cappock caprock ca prock is fashioned into enduring sandstone see how the years pile up even as the mountain top rears upward in a straight heap at the top the mind pauses for hundreds of feet in soil material once lay above the caprock cappock the fremont river has gnawed at the mountain slowly at the caprock cappock faster on the shale until today its aggregate bite ac cumulated is feet feet X worn down by water before ones one s eyes today and yesterday in one brief glance today the time of now yester days back for many millions of years those millions of bears ears before one from leaf to ca today no d efferent from any of those esterday ester das s continuous work A never ending work yet 4 formation but slightly darker in tone is the entire similarly cut mass under the ledge of cap rock this mancos shale is soft and wears easily hence it is deep ly gullied with pronounced cuts of many furrows and indents eions but the cap rock is of hard cretaceous sandstone and I 1 dative bits show hugely in the ag i gregath one day days s task un noted A beautiful scene A picture of merit and just as beautiful to the eye as appealing to the in nd rid time unfolded and what a record at a time roughly ing that of the bottom of the mountain before you the ruling dinosaur from the little two toed pigmy which ran down a smaller prey to the big unwieldy toothed engine of destruction who battled a foe even larger than itself both have passed their day was run the cretaceous Creta cious is the time of the great dying many entire lines died out the camera sees only caprock cappock above shale not being able to add one iota to what is before it but the mind minds s eye sees the record a record of time passing bringing changes in its wake when lumb ering bigness gave way to nimble quick when sway of reptile pas sed to rule of mammal beauty is caught by the camera A greater beauty is in the unfold ing scroll read by the mind the tourist from the west pas sing through wayne wonderland has encountered the spectacular he has seen immense mountains bold cliffs formidable ledges all requiring eons of time A gorge of rare scenic value practically a crack in g gantic walls of rock he has seen lavish use of color further he has but had to glance up and rimming mountains moun tans of 11 feet of majesty in nature hem hein in his vista his mind has been f I 1 led with the large the superlative hence too often he will speed by this exquisite little gem near cain ville as a mere minor mountain of only feet in height a mere mole outside a setting of great ness therewa does he rob himself he should stop bela relax let the worth of it infiltrate enrich this moment of on let h in note in all its beauty TODAY the now in i sett ng of millions ml llos of years of yesterdays in emery county just north of this is a much s i ular shale tho there it is colo ed red to which the name has been agn giden en the morrison shale in it I 1 have found resists erosion hence it appears as a bold ledge of rock on top a prot protective octive cap its color is buff the fremont river lows flows in the channel seen in the mid die dle foreground the cut of the opposite bank is 15 seen a few feet high the whole is nature at her louliest lov lovI liest iest best bedecked many excellent dinosaur bones of which one is a thigh bone 4 feet long which for many years was on exhibit in the chronicle office and is now part of a rock garden in my yard but I 1 have not been for dunate enough to as yet find dinosaur d bones in wayna county that lure is for the tho future sharp contours abrupt angles lack of rounding off such angular ity as is seen in this photo denote in erosion a relative term in the vast span of geology to which time seemingly is na ture s plaything this erosion of the s shale h a I 1 e now so plain and so pleasing to the eye its chiseling done only yesterday so to speak to be fertl further er etched tomorrow and yet more worn away on the day after the hand af the M mighty i g h t y sculptor is still busy at the work but on the other hand the mighty walls of rock the motorist has pas sed through a few miles back ap pear to him so firm so solid so everlasting are they as to de note finished fini done ed and the workman having withdrawn but here so lately was the work aone resie residue loosened clutters the tho floor the whole man cos shale 1 that worn off chiseled loose residue the land amidst the colors as the navahos term it back a few miles heavy tation color here yes delicate pastels spa sparingly laid on ful in wisp like frail ty the cap rock is dark b buff u f f to duller the high lights tinged with yellow dis solved by rans rens that yella wash es down its hue flows aito the material below changing ch anginA steel gray into creamy yellow arid ad that in turn to change by yet another factor for inan in an intense intensely lp blue sky with br iliana azure reflected from all s des the yellow cream is tinged to the most evanescent evan scent veil like pale gheen as light as gossa mer aid in the late afternoon when the sun begins to mellow gradually you see ever so little a tinge of red added to the pigments ever ng in the lowering of the sun turn s to deep er buff and buff a ruddier and warmer hue more aglow it is a of ever changing hues on the pattern follow ng the mood of sun from noon when the great orb irritable his temper fiery his mood fierce to his softer aspect as mellowed with 9 day well spent he casette cast the former mood aside and glows with the warmth of pleasure leasure amx i efly jf the ceaseless work of A river wearing soil the premont fremont river this october day looked so mild so unruffled that one could feel like linking permin permanent ent habitation near its ad pla cid course but that belies its fits of temper A generation ago it flew into a doiren of rage hurled itse i at the enclosing banks swept out many feet of flood plain soil tor down fences and uprooted orchards A house was left as a 1 taunt aunt on the very brink needing bilut but a touch to topple in that in baer ader s on and mockery of man and fled fled until only half the palliation 0 ua I 1 t 0 o on w was as left at which the parn 1 stream I t p put u t on its most demure ap pear bearance pe arance of innocence sans frown ancee sa sais te temper per a pose it holds even to today y yet e et in th that brief flood it only mem sh showed ow led a remembrance bance of more vigorous rigorous daya days of cutting aown own a chanry chann wilt win tast fast as earth arping ledged its liff lif d Ch phinesse inesse coolie work rma road more as basket ul after id rocks rom a than has to meet the gaze of passers by no two hours of the day find the same colors given beck back to the eye hard steel gray at noon then tinted into mauves to delicate pink as the sun grows redder in an intense blue sky faint tinges of veil like green appear in the shale this river laboriously bill ons of tons of material a grain at a time in each tiny wave let carrying the suspended forward multiplied in effort by uncounted mass of fellow wave lets each busy at the same task or to liken th process of erosion to the routine of run or other g great r e a t plants in the vast drove of em each lays his on n the assembly belt the colorado river which is a trunk line corn com parable to our network of rail roads and that in turn transports the product to the distant mart in this case to the gulf of calif orma ornia how much nicer to pause and reflect at this beauty spot so rich in the lore of past records than to spurt past unheeding form ihne line pattern the ever changing I 1 tints of hues the word record all how pleasing one is bettard by absorbing what one can and he absorbs the most who takes the most to it nature bestows gifts in prodigal lavishness and here is her hand filled with an offering take whoso is prompted |