which fits its setting better than this one, or which is a
more perfect thing from every point of view. It is a
one-story building of Spanish architecture--a style
which, to my mind, fits better than any other, the sort of
landscape in which plains and mountains meet. Houses
as elaborate as the Grand Trianon, always seem to me to
lend themselves best to a rather formal, park-like country
which is flat, or nearly so; while Elizabethan
adapted Tudor houses of the kind one sees at Broad-
moor, seem to cry out for English lawns, and great lush-
growing trees to soften the hard lines of roof and gable.
Such houses may be set in rolling country with good
effect, but in the face of the vast mountain range which
dominates this neighborhood, the most elaborate archi-
tecture is so completely dwarfed as to seem almost ridic-
ulous. Architecture cannot compete with the Rocky
Mountains; the best thing it can do is to submit to them:
to blend itself into the picture as unostentatiously as pos-
sible. And that is what "El Pomar" does.

-433-