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Beauty /Beautiful ptctitres painted by Lawrence Lee Scholl, and reproduced from the Santa Fe nia-gazine of the current month. The author, non of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sehall. or Corona, says:Let us ascend the tv.nla Anas front their northern slopes, which are steepest and which offer the best opportunity for a study of the most distinctive features of the range. We shall take the Forest Service trail, which starts in a canyon southwest of the town of Corona at an elevation of a thousand feet above the sea. We arc surprised that we should gain so rapidly the higher ridges after entering the trail, and we have not gone a mile until we are treated to a wonderful panorama.The Corona valley, with its patterns of orange and lemon groves, has gradually been opening to our view, but before we have climbed half the distance to the Divide we see the immense valley which sweeps from the Santa Anns to the Sierra Marin*, and we may plainly see the blue wall of the latter, dominated by the peaks about Ml. San Antonio. ranging from eight to ten thousand fret in height. Nor do we the less feel the Immense sweeps to the east, .where we Bee the massive San Bernardinos, with white-capped San Gorgonlo pushing more than eleven thousand feet Into the blue.We are bound to remark, again and again, the magnificent panoramas from the Santa Anas, because they are one of its distinctive features. We have stood on heights far loftier, but we hUve rarely been witness to more Impressive or more beautiful panoramas than the outlooks from the Santa Anas. We are not quite sure why this is so, unlessIng shadows and the color splendors of a Info afternoon aqn.. Hut let Uk proceed. . The trail we are on is knov/n a# the Tin Mine Trail because It skirts the ridges above Tin Mine Canyon, and as we ascend We often stop to admire the view into this abyss which seems (o be deepening as we rise higher and higher above it. Let usof Santa ‘Catalina Islands, some distance off the mainland.• We note a marked difference In tlio Character of the southern a'a compared to the. northern sTopt-s of th« Santa Anas. The latter, as we have already seen, are very steep, dimpled with deep canyons and arising abruptly from the mesas. Tlio opposite slop* is very gradual, tho foot-pause. We have roach-d tfte»hm* being many miles distant, vantage point from which Lie ull(| i*,e entire region more vnr-accompanylng photograph of th«iir,, nature. There is leas of range was taken. Here we have Bubllnilty but greater variety of before us, a scene of typical fcoior and form, and as we pro-Santa Ana splendor; and do you C(.e(, nIonK lh|9 „kyllne trail wonot feel the forceful character, the stupendous beauty, of it all? It is a triumph in simplicity; yet it is composed of units innumerable. Think of the millions of shrubs which have spread that velvet coal upon the mountainside. and could supremest artist drape, as nature has. inarc constantly entertained by the appcur.'fnce of some new and stiange detail in the views opening before us.Wo see dark clolheri peaks, strangely coutissted with areas overgrown, with a low gray brush, or banked against ridges of sandstone eroded in moat pe-We see nil man-spreading her green garments i,nlKh'y ,01S W Var,h|-^S^%elt;^.nim,shrub: anti ston.. bcry. and we see quite as muchWe know that a statue may vurlnliol ,he topography, be draped In a manner that reveals tho very thing covered, and do you not feel this of thescene before you. Does not the wealthy robe, which sun and soil and rain have woven ou these slopes, reveal (he sculpture of the mountains as clearly and ev?n more beautifully than if they were quite nude. This is because tlie chaparral is of such uniform height, generally speaking. that it conforms to every undulation of the slops, and besides preserving the beauty or the mountain sculpture, adds a softening touch.We are looking down a thot’s and feet into Tin Mine Canyon.In Hie vicinity of Sugarloaf Peak, now at four thousand feet, wo come upon striking bits of highly decorative landscape; entire slopes given over to the most exquisite massing of shrubbery of different kinds and color. At places sharp definition oT color. at other places we may see slopes with the finest gradations from one tone to another, and withal a most artistic effect. Between Sugarloaf and Modjeska peaks one comes upon nearby slope* which are striking ev-amples of decorative beauty, and I shall not hesitate to say that this feature is one of the glor-......... nt the range; those treasuresand we may look up more lhan J Wt.„ ootl(.,.;|Iei,from ti W,,|I concealed from the casuala thousand feet toward1 the cone, va„ ollfielvol who haa no of Sugarloaf leak. Note n,nuntai.is have within their domain nn_ endless variety of some of the finest art-tlie shadows emphasize the beauty of the massive folds; folds p* of satin drapery, and how much they add to the feeling of depth and of distance'istic touches in nature. The writer has seen acres upon acres, ind-ed entire slopes, whitenedWe have at last reached the w„|, lhe wealthy bloom of the
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Corona Courier
Corona, California, US
Fri, Nov 08, 1929
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