Alice Robertson

"Any landscape is composed not only of what lies before our eyes but what lies within our heads." After reading "The Beholding Eye" I related many of the main points to my experience in the canyon; the idea of the land being a stage is relevant to the microcosm of relationships taking place in the early morning among canyon "regulars." Landscape can be an ideology, an artifact - to the people we've encountered it is mainly "their's." While Janet, who is involved with the coyotes and their protection, made a lot of great points on people's feelings of "entitlement" to the land, our group has been trying to be neutral on the subject. It seems the area is full of controversy, personal controversy you don't usually see in large cities but in places where everyone knows each other.