“Colorado”
“In the first case every element played subtly against every other: the dark-jade green of the red-maple leaves, lighter in tone than the water’s color, grew progressively more so as the sun touched its upper branches. The gray-green undersides of the leaves matched the deeper gray of the stream rocks and the silver-gray of the riparian gravel. Clouds reflected in the flowing water as dimmer and less-lively imitations of the white water created when the current struck the mid-channel boulders. Birds possessed such perfect camouflage that they disappeared as they flew down into the cottonwood tree branches. No matter how hard one tried, one could not have improved upon this natural scene.”