76 Thus it appears that everything here is marching to music & the harmonies are all so simple & young they are easily apprehended by those who will keep still & listen & look, however far these harmonies may extend beyond our powers, they are simple enough on the surface The meadows between the groves are of course growing smaller year by year, from the gradual encroachment of the dry soil-beds from the ordinary action of weathering agents. annual & spring floods Since coming to Sunnyside the snow mantle has become thin & broken on the N [North] side the valley wasting like a cloud. But a strip still remains unbroken on the S. side beneath the main shadows of the walls. The 1st [first] stream on Sunnyside toward Indian Canon is a broad whi...