22 THE MOUNTAINS 



to the extreme moderation of the shifts in 

 color-combination. 



While form and color are the items 

 which the mountains contribute to beauty, 

 these items, it should be noted, often com- 

 bine into a larger beauty by reason of the 

 setting in which the peak or range is 

 placed. In this mountain-frame there 

 are many potent features. First, there 

 is the overarching sky, which always is 

 doing some gloriously beautiful thing to 

 a mountain. Then there are settings 

 where meadow, or forest, or lake, or river, 

 or river-valley plays an important part. 

 Then there are settings where winding 

 roads and picturesque villages seem to 

 enhance the mountain-beauty. Then there 

 is the combination-frame, where many 

 things artistically interact, as, for ex- 

 ample, when we view Mount Pisgah from 

 Asheville, or the White Mountains from 

 Sugar Hill. This last view has a com- 

 bined total of mountain-beauty which, in 

 a period of more than twenty years, has 



