A View Up, Up, Up The East Canyon Wall To The Pure Blue Sky Far Away.

….[“ .... After many turns in the canyon wall we stop for a break under a scrubby little patch of small trees and rocks. The grass around the trees is burned and brown and scattered with litter from picnickers. .. I collapse into some shade, …. ” ] “ …. and after a while squint up at the sky, which I haven’t really looked at since we entered this canyon. Up there above the canyon walls it’s cool and dark blue and far away. .. ” (Cont. Next)

South End of Huge Parking Lot, Roadside Rest Area, Skookumchuck Recreation Site, Four Miles South Of White Bird, Salmon River Gorge, ID.

Metaphoric Bridge Connection.
The Narrator sits in the hot, dry dust amongst the trash of civilization and wistfully views the pure blue cool sky far away. In so doing, the Narrator is metaphorically contrasting present day “technological ugliness syruped over with romantic phoniness“ with a “pure” ideal that could be achieved with proper application of his Quality and other forms of human caring.
….The Narrator said (previous photo caption) they were dejected by the ugly trash, Metaphorically Conforming with some of the more ugly, “stylized” parts of technology.
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This Roadside Rest Area, Is Clean, Neat, & Orderly, In Exact Opposite Contrast With The Narrator’s Statements =>
….When I was at this Rest Area, this was a perfect little park - shady, green, grassy, well-irrigated, AND clean, orderly, with NO trash.
… It was squeezed (sandwiched) between the highway and the huge, roaring Salmon River deep in the Scenic Gorge! In addition, this Modern, Roadside Rest Area actually provides a wonderful, long, wide, sandy swimming beach at the water’s edge.
….Judging from the huge size of the parking lot, this must be a very popular swimming and recreation area when the season is “just right”. However, the place was nearly empty when I was there: Ditto for the Narrator’s statement, so we may conclude that mid-summer is not “just right”, for local people? …Or is this possibly due to day of week, where a Weekend is more popular than a Weekday?
….The existence of such a cool green park and beautiful swimming beach is unmentioned by the Narrator. Were these amenities not there in 1968, or are they ignored as being incompatible with the Chautauqua?
….OR … Was the Narrator afraid to cool off and refresh with a swim in the river? Clearly a possibility in 1968. Depressed people do not do what is obvious and needed to regain strength. You can hear the Narrator’s fatigue and dejection in his weary statement describing how they get back on the cycle, next photo.

NOTE: As Mentioned Previous Photos: This Roadside Rest Area And A Nice Sandy River Beach, Is Called => The Skookumchuck Recreation Site, Click Here For Satellite View.
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