Arizona Highways "Monument Chromatics"
Published By ARIZONA DEPARTMENT
OF TRANSPORTATION 1980
Copyright©
1980 By The ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTAION
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Monument Valley photo featured in "Monument
Chromatics" article 1980.
Photograph by: Frank Jensen
Cover
Photo by:
Josef Muench
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is truly "music to the eyes;"
lyrical, joyous, spirited music; music from a
Strauss waltz or an Offenbach operetta.
In the valleys like the
Sedona and the Monument, the music becomes majestic.
The low sun ignites the sandstone and Yeii
Bicheii rocks, turning cliffs and towers
and buttes into walls of flame. Their fire engulfs
you with reds; heavy, dense reds-burgundy, scarlet,
beet, crimson, ruby, oxblood, maroon. These are
bass fiddle timpani reds; reds you can feel in
your bone; immense stone-deep reds that fill up
your eyes and chisel a place in your brain.
excerpt from:
Monument Chromatics. Arizona Department of
Transportation 1980 W.A. Krueger Co.,
Phoenix, Arizona.
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