Photo of a river and houses in Snowdonia, North Wales, UK.
"Down By the River" by Bert Kaufmann, 2012. Source: Flickr.
Photo of trees in Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona.
"High on the Canyon Wall" by Terry Tyson, 2011. Source: Flickr.
While I have never been to Wales, I have been to Sedona (Oak Creek Canyon is not part of Sedona, it's located just outside the city proper). I grew up in a small town near the famous red rock destination and it is the place I get homesick over when I think about 'home'. I chose these pictures as they are good indicators of my 'places' aesthetics: I either want green and soggy or dry and colourful.
What a great way to categorize places, Whitney!!! Setting and place can be such a powerful element in storytelling, which is why images can be really helpful: the words green and soggy or dry and colorful don't really do the same job the images do in terms of conjuring up those places. And WALES: two of my favorite units in the whole UnTextbook are the Welsh stories units. Maybe you will want to read those. They are both excellent!!!
ReplyDeleteMyth-Folklore Unit: Welsh Fairy Book (Thomas)
http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/03/myth-folklore-unit-welsh-fairy-book.html
(Thomas is more literary, and Emerson is more oral tradition... both are super IMO)
Whoops, messed up link: the second one IS Emerson. :-)
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