. Rod, gun, and palette in the high Rockies : being a record of an artist's impressions in the land of the red gods . the northern hills, on whose sides in shelteredhollows the aspens flame in golden beauty. The western horizonis closed in by the tail of the southern sheltering hill, and fartheroff, across the blue water, a part of the Madison range, just ashort length visible between the near hills. All day this is a con-tinually shifting and changing harmony of blue and colorful gray,with a splendid flash of copper light on some great shoulder ofbare rock as the afternoon sun slants redly do
. Rod, gun, and palette in the high Rockies : being a record of an artist's impressions in the land of the red gods . the northern hills, on whose sides in shelteredhollows the aspens flame in golden beauty. The western horizonis closed in by the tail of the southern sheltering hill, and fartheroff, across the blue water, a part of the Madison range, just ashort length visible between the near hills. All day this is a con-tinually shifting and changing harmony of blue and colorful gray,with a splendid flash of copper light on some great shoulder ofbare rock as the afternoon sun slants redly down. At evening thetones change to deepest violet as the light leaves the sky, until4 48 Rod, Gun, and Palette in the High Rockies in the splendid starlight, one can just make out, and more forcibly,feel, the solemn bulk of the mountains against the heavens. 1 . the river loses itself around a curve in a pleasantVWta of willow brush and reed l>eds, its calm surface a sapphire-like blue in contrast to the rich gold of the hay meadows that onits lOUtheni bank rise gradually to the crown of Horse Butte,. ^*^\^w^lif2f8 »*. ^j *..k :u\irj, th. river loses itself whose eastern end. fir forested, is just visible past the side of thesheltering hill across tin water. I here is a hint of blue-green sageIB the mid-distance, above which rises, across almost the entireeastern horizon a belt of firs, whose darkness renders more dis-tantly blue than ever the low band of hills that marks the easternhorizon, in whose center drops the Madison canyon, a greats(]iiarc-sided gap through whose far depths there sometimes showsan infinitely far-off mass of cloud, minute by distance, glowingin the light that pours through the gap at evening with a precious-ness of color that stirs a painters heart to a fresh thankfulness forsight. A little after noon Wroe and Pratt returned with eight duck,(one a mallard drake in large flesh and splendid feather), threejacksnipe, and a three and one-half po
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