Pink Rain, Caralee Woods, Kanab, Utah
My last post, ‘Cloud Portal to the coast’, prompted Caralee Woods of Kanab, Utah, to send her ‘Pink Rain’ photograph with this appended message,
For some reason your photo reminded me of a different kind of rain photo I took sometime back here in the desert, right out my back door. The sun was setting and shining through some virga–rain that doesn’t reach the ground. I thought of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain‘ and decided to call this one ‘Pink Rain.’ The photo wasn’t enhanced, and I like the fact that the sage seems to glow.
Caralee resides with her husband, Jimmy Henley, in Kanab, Utah, where they are building a strawbale compound a few miles from the town. Jimmy and I have been friends since elementary school in the 1950s. In the 1970s, I met Caralee when she was a book representative for Harper & Row publishers. She came into my office at Amarillo College and called me, “Little Francis,” a nickname I had not heard since high school — courtesy of Jimmy, my old school chum.
Their website has several photographs of the guest house, main house foundation and walls, strawbales and their garden: Building Our Strawbale Home! The coloring treatment of their floors is fantastic: a dark copper, desert brown. Caralee and Jimmy established a compound that is off the electrical grid, using solar and backup diesel generators for energy efficiency. Visit their website also for the landscape vistas in her photographs. One of these days I hope to visit them again and see the progress they have made as well as gaze at the glowing sage and pink-virga rain.
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Love it.
I do, too. Thanks for your comment.
Beautiful.
It really is, Annie.
Caralee’s photo is wonderful, and I so love southern Utah. Thanks so much, Jack, for providing the link to their site.
I knew you like southern Utah so the photograph must have special meaning for you.
Utah’s a beautiful state, with as much variety as one could want – and what a beautiful capture of one of its rains. Lavender and magenta sunsets are so rare – at least around here – and that’s a beautiful and pleasing photo.
Yes, it is pleasing, and Caralee is such a fine photographer.
That’s a fantastic project.
I like the pink rain and the sage which has got such fine strong, dargreen colours.
Grethe ´)
Yes, I like the sage that glows. They have a fantastic project in a beautiful setting.
The Pink Rain is something I would like to see, Grethe.