But the drama was upstaged by the forest of pine trees around the tiny stage, the forest fire lookout tower that looms overhead, and beyond that a view that extends for 100 miles or more in every direction, to etched red and dun-colored buttes and, in the distance, to rolling green plains and, farthest off toward the horizon, the hazy blue silhouette of the Bighorn Mountains.
While browsing street-style blogs, I began to notice that fashion-forward young women were trading in their lip gloss for the crisp, matte, sharply etched reds of wartime pinups and postwar Hollywood starlets.
Twelve-year-old Patrick Gonzalez was suspended from Woodlake Hills Middle School for a day after turning up for class with the image of Spurs' sharpshooter Matt Bonner etched in his red hair.
Etched into the red-rock cliffs, St . Georgeoffers a seemingly endless array of hiking and biking trails.
They were smooth, round yellow tablets, etched with a tiny red corporate symbol that was as delicate as a Chinese ideograph.
Skating to the familiar tango song "La Cumparsita" and wearing an elegant costume with a red rose etched on the back, she received a score of 71.36, beating her previous personal best of 70.00.
In her series "From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried" (1995-96), for instance, she appropriated 19th-century daguerreotypes of slaves and presented them tinted blood red and etched with text like "An Anthropological Debate," "Some Said You Were the Spitting Image of Evil" and "You Became Playmate to the Patriarch".
In most other Chinese cities the dominant buildings belong to the Communist Party, but in Wenzhou it's the churches which command attention; many of them as big as cathedrals, adorned with extravagant domes, turrets and spires and each topped by a red cross etched against the encircling mountains.
Its north wall is three stories tall, red brick etched by white mortar and surmounted by rusted chain-link and chicken wire.
Looking out over the verdant hillside, its surface etched by the occasional red-earth footpath, it is easy to imagine the scene.
Painted in charcoal and red ochre, or etched into the limestone, careful shading and skilful technique bring the animals to life, revealing movement and depth.
