See this? If you were to go over to a wide place that you could fit into and shinny yourself down a hundred feet or so to the bottom, this is what you’d see.

Just underneath your feet is this. Antelope canyon in Arizona. Lower Antelope canyon to be precise. Bet you’d a never thunk it. You could shinny down to this if you were one of those guys who was really good at shinnying but you don’t have to. At either end of this canyon are ladders that will take you down to the bottom and save all that work.

However for the less adventurous of us where shinnying won’t work due to the amount of comfort starches packed on over the winter you can go over to the edge, lie down and stick your head down into that crack as far as you’re able to, look as hard as you can and you won’t see this. Not a bit of it. Be careful you don’t slip and fall in and get like, wedged so you have to gnaw your arms off or something  to get out. You have to go down inside and look up to see these colors.

That’s because the color doesn’t happen unless the light hits it, and the light hits it because at certain times of day depending on the time of year the sun is directly overhead just right and the light shines all the way down to the bottom of this canyon and makes color. It’s like that old question “If there’s color in the darkness can you see it?” and the answer is no. Not unless you’re one of those freaky bat-like things that can see in the dark but even then you wouldn’t see these colors because those bat-like things see in an entirely different spectrum than us, infra-red or blue or orange, whatever, and their colors are weird. I told you they were creepy.

Seeing as how it’s Friday and I know some of you are still in the depths of winter I thought you might like a little pick me up. Just to remind you that there are other colors in the world besides white and grey and black. Antelope canyon, bright, warm colors, no shinnying needed, and just waiting for you. So if you’re really tired of winter, my recommendation is just to run away, quick, don’t think about it, just do it. Antelope canyon’s a good place to go. See you there.