CATHERINE LIKED HIGH PLACES...

O Sing of the Sky Islands, my first steps on the grandmothers who are actually called Sierra Madre ...desert foothills suddenly teeming with saguaros give way to the seven cataracts and hundreds of stacked rocks, then a pine forest at 8000 feet...and the chem-trails disappear, giving us full access to the sun ----------------------------------------------------
1. Saint Catherine of Alexandria (missionary man, Eusebio Francisco Kino named these mountains Santa Catalina after her, 1697) "Catherine liked high places,
High up on the hills A place for making noises
A place for making noises Noises like the whales Here she built a chapel Her image on the wall
A place where she could rest
A place where she could wash
and listen to the wind blow

She dreamed of childrens' voices
And torture on the wheel

Patron saint of nothing
A woman of the hills
She once was a lady
Of pleasure and high-born
A lady of the city
But now she sits and moans... and listens to the wind blow I see her in her chapel
High up on the hill
She must be so lonely
Oh Mother, can't we give
A husband to our Catherine
A handsome one, a dear
A rich one for the lady
Someone to listen with"* She is "the patroness of philosophers and preachers" and "spinsters" and/or "married women" or maybe "nothing" and she forsook an earthbound husband for one whose "beauty was more radiant than the shining of the sun" (*"The Wind" by PJ Harvey, 1998, about St. Catherine and the hilltop chapel close to her birthplace)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Alexandria
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=341 (Later, highest peak Mt. Lemmon was named for Sara Lemmon, botanist. It was unusual for mountain to be named for a woman by two different groups of European settlers.)

2.SKY ISLANDS SCENIC BYWAY
The scenic byway is a path to another world, an evergreen island in the Sonora Desert
3000 to 8000 feet on one road, we're just sitting above Tucson but it feels like we've gone for miles and miles in these ballet flats and giants standing like rocks between canyons that will literally take your breath away...
The Seven Cataracts, canyons become common as stoplights in the city...
Mysteriously, the chem-trails that cover the valley are not in these skies! Wonder why?
next episode, Kate Bush (another Catherine) and orgonite...

http://friendly-village.org/skyisland.htm
http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/forest/recreation/scenic_drives/catalina_hwy.shtml