Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - Independence KS
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Sunset in the Park, Elk City Reservoir - April 30, 2008
Elk City State Park campground
My black tank needs to take a dump making a night in a campground a desirable departure from my usual Wal-Mart parking lot thing and what a fine campground this is. Elk City State Park has some beautiful modern campgrounds on the east side of Elk City Reservoir and I bagged a site right at waters edge. Nice. Nice sunset over the lake to boot.
Night camp:
Site 13, Sunset Point, Elk City State Park, Independence, Kansas
They do not Intrude on Each Other
The San Francisco Mountain lies in northern Arizona, above Flagstaff, and its blue slopes and snowy summit entice the eye for a hundred miles across the desert. About its base lie the pine forests of the Navajos, where the great red-trunked trees live out their peaceful centuries in that sparkling air. The pinons and scrub begin only where the forest ends, where the country breaks into open, stony clearings and the surface of the earth cracks into deep canyons. The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude on each other. ...
The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, p265, Houghton Mifflin Co paperback edition 1987