Show RICH HUES ZION PARK WALLS yosemite in color Is one phrase for describing zion national parks beauties in a phrase while the phrase chras e presupposes a knowledge of the 0 older lder national park and carries a cc comparison in carlson that might be deemed rather invidious it Is yet true that some same persons persona who ought to know say that the Is most apt outside of the awesomeness ot of towering walls wall e and mighty pinnacles perhaps the characteristic that brings more gasps from the tourist than any other Is the rich variety of warm hues huas shading from the browns browna through the th e vermilions lions and purples and afta the pinks to the whites mighty masses of colors reaching from the hie verdant greens of the valleys fringed at top frequently with the darker hues of the evergreen evergreens ever greens s and reaching beyond to the bluest of skies truly a symphony in color like so much of 0 scenery zion Is seen to best advant advantage we at sunrise or sunset in the evening espee bially as the level rays of the sinking sun weave a web of fancy across the huge gulch the sunbeams seem in allred to reveal fantastic or grotesque forms amid the huge rock masses that were not there before or it if there were unnoticed in the matter of fact glow ot of a noonday sun perhaps the human feelings are at that hour more in tune tuna with the maji maj ety esty of a universe ot of which man forms forma BO 80 sm small allTa part perhaps there Is some physical explanation in the play of lights and shadows whatever the reason there Is no doubt that he who spends an hour or two in zion canyon around midday does not see the canyon yon at all such a visitor may perhaps have an intellectual appreciation of the tact fact that the floor of the canyon Is nearly feet below the inaccessible level top of the west temple of the virgin that the great white throne is thought to be among tile the largest unbroken masses of exposed rock of which geologists have knowledge he may be interested in geological formations ire he may appreciate the fact that here lie he may see the forces of nature working at their fastest bre as in few places else he may inay see the world as it were in the making dut but tor for real appreciation ot of the beauties of the canyon he la Is indeed fortunate who can spend the night there many nights it he have but the time and opportunity in the evening or in the moonlight the spirit of awe and mystery and grandeur overspread the canyon and sink into the very soul of the observer then find and only then does he begin to know zion tribune |