Aren't these amazing photos by Tyler Knudson
that were published in the Spectrum?
This is Bull Valley Gorge also known as Willow Canyon.
The truck can be seen from the bottom.
These are recent pictures. I am so impressed.
That's the wonder of The Grand-Staircase Escalante
Monument...there are so many wonders to see.
This is only one.
Quite a sight, that pickup truck down in that canyon for all time or until it disintegrates, maybe sooner than the rock will. I didn't hear about that, but photos don't lie!
ReplyDeleteThis is an amazing photograph--I think I remember hearing the story, in fact, I think it was from you. Wasn't it a wreck or something? As for the paintings I use on my blog, I simply put 'cowboy paintings' in my google search engine, and hundreds of cowboy paintings pop up. I chose this particular painting because I thought these country cowboys could do many things other than ride a horse. They could fix that truck behind them, dig a post hole, unplug a sprinkler head, get the tractor working, buck some hay, and probably get drunk on Friday night and still be up at the crack of dawn to change some ditch water. I've noticed a cowboy's life is more than catching a horse, so much more.
ReplyDeleteThe three men were drinking and the truck stopped going up the hill on the other side.
ReplyDeleteThey didn't have good brakes and rolled back into the Gorge. One fell out and the other two died in the truck. The truck wasn't found for a week or so. The ones in the truck died
of thirst. Tragic deaths in a very remote spot.
I think the most amazing thing about writing a blog is that it forces you to think, "What do I think?" I never tried to articulate my own personal history of guns or what I really thought. I was a little surprised. Aunt Ann, the thirty-eight pistol I pointed at Mom was Uncle Tom's, and it was loaded at the time, but it seems like in those days everything was loaded. I do want to write more about this issue, as this latest shooting really affected me. The statistics on gun deaths in this country are astonishing, and the thinking that goes on in its regard is equally astonishing. Like alcohol, there is a collective thinking on guns that is as deep and long as the invention of fire. There is a correlation of both of these issues. 85% of compulsive crime is alcohol influenced.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to get to know yourself through writing, and the issues deep down that so influence your own actions. Aunt Linda, I don't know the name of the painter. I found it by googling Cowboy paintings and sifting through the images. You can look at any painting in the world with the touch of your computer...amazing.