Even more than the curious Natural Bridge and the Rock Garden, a highlight of Red River Gorge State Park is the view of distant treescapes.
Compared to Indiana, the vegetation of Kentucky has deeper reds and more pronounced greens in late Fall.
Living with daily views like these would be paradise for me. Admittedly, I like complicated things.
I am a big fan of rock/tree formations, and thus the Rock Garden Trail in Red River Gorge State Park was a must for me.
The rock garden is, expectedly, very different from designer Japanese landscapes. Because everything is here by chance, all depends on the viewer.
It is hard to say what I like about these landscapes. They are clearly not everybody’s taste.
Maybe they vaguely suggest archaic temples to me — either unfinished, or in utter destruction. The trees serve as columns, while the rocks are material for more permanent structures, to be used or in slower decay.
The Natural Bridge in Red River Gorge State Park (Kentucky!) doesn’t bridge anything, like most natural bridges.
One can walk under and across and thus use both functions of a bridge, contemplating the pointlessness of the act in this case. It helps that the bridge is more or less on top of a mountain.
That there are trees on top is giving hope, though.
The Inner Frame 