From: Karen
Date: Fri Jul 22 10:23:19 MST 2005
Subject: "It's a beautiful day..."

"...don't let it slip away." Yesterday afternoon's sky was cloudless blue. (Yeah, say the Tucsonans, so what?) Like Tucson, the town of Banff is surrounded on four sides by mountains, but the pines are much thicker, the mountains are closer, and glaciers are sprinkled here and there. Ahhhhhh. This is the prettiest national park I've ever been in. It's beautiful in a Mozart-Bach, Claude Monet kind of way. Compared with others: Grand Canyon is awe-inspiring, intense (like Beethoven or Chopin, Camille Claudel's sculpture) Yellowstone's geo-activity is just funky (forget classical music--think the Sgt Pepper's album--for visual art, probably Dali) Smoky Mountains are laid-back (Simon & Garfunkel, "Feeling Groovy," Renoir's paintings of people hangin' out) Mammoth Cave is big and dark but not scary at all unless you're claustrophobic (the Cure? visual art--oooooh, I dunno.... who did those really big canvases with simple planes of color? maybe Rothko...) OK, I'm taking my music geek self and getting out of this Y soon. (Mosquitos, be gone!)

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