Friday, July 18, 2008

Canyon View

After leaving the restaurant in Mesquite, Nevada I noticed a sign for an area called Canyon View. I laughed about how street and housing developments get named for things that are nowhere to be seen. Falcon Rim has no falcons and it not on the rim of anything. Ocean Breeze Estates is so far inland that you're lucky if you called it Oscillating Fan Estates. So as we were joking about the fact that Canyon View overlooked a rather large arroyo, but nothing more, we began our drive through the Virgin River Canyon. It is spectacular. The 45 degree angles of the striations. The shifting colors in the fading light of day. The winding river cutting its way through stone. It was the highlight of what had seemed, visually, a pretty boring day as we drove from Southern California through Las Vegas into Utah.

I have to hand it to those people in Canyon View. They got it right.

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