RV wannabees love to be told what they want to hear. (How did the lyric go in that old Simon and Garfunkel song? "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest...") And you know what that is, for Arizona desert camping.
Now let's show you that it isn't always like that!
Now let's show you that it isn't always like that!
Fog makes for good photo's, no complaining here!
ReplyDeleteThe photo is a "twofer"; it not only shows that Arizona does not always have sunshine and a clear blue sky but it also has some very sick saguaro cactus. Well done.
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ReplyDeleteI was a little confused about this one. Wondering....is that supposed to be ugly? The foggy sky is beautiful (I have always loved fog and mist) and the saguaros are waaay too unique and interesting to be disagreeable in any way. I hate Arizona personally.....unending blasting sun which gives me a headache and usually hotter than hell. This picture is a lovely respite from all that. This pic could be an advertisement to bring snowbirds to 'mysterious' Arizona, land of the Saguaros. The particular saguaros pictured remind me of this thought:
Saguaro
By Brenda Hillman
Often visitors there, saddened
by lack of trees, go out
to a promontory.
Then, backed by the banded
sunset, the trail
of the Conquistadores,
the father puts on the camera,
the leather albatross,
and has the children
imitate saguaros. One
at a time they stand there smiling,
fingers up like the tines of a fork
while the stately saguaro
goes on being entered
by wrens, diseases, and sunlight.
The mother sits on a rock,
arms folded
across her breasts. To her
the cactus looks scared,
its needles
like hair in cartoons.
With its arms in preacher
or waltz position,
it gives the impression
of great effort
in every direction,
like the mother.
Thousands of these gray-green
cacti cross the valley:
nature repeating itself,
children repeating nature,
father repeating children
and mother watching.
Later, the children think
the cactus was moral,
had something to teach them,
some survival technique
or just regular beauty.
But what else could it do?
The only protection
against death
was to love solitude.
George, there is some malformity in my soul that keeps me from enjoying poetry, but I am glad you found this poem and shared it.
ReplyDeleteActually I didn't think the scene was ugly at all. Endless sunlight is oppressive. I wanted to show that Arizona is not the standard postcard as presented by "Bob & Sue's Mighty RV Adventure" blog.
Ed, indeed, most sagauros don't have the standard picturesque shape that they have in a Roadrunner & Coyote cartoon. They look sickly and tumescent many times.
ReplyDeleteFor us native Arizona folk the rain and fog (which I have never seen stay for the day as it did today) it is beautiful. We know how much we need the rain and will take it any time we can get it!
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