And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
March, 1997, I was driving home from Prineville, OR, eastbound on Highway 14 in the Columbia River Gorge.
There was an almost-total lunar eclipse that night, and I pulled over at the Cape Horn lookout and enjoyed it. The Moon was low on the horizon, and nicely framed by the Gorge.
Right above my head was Comet Hale-Bopp, in a cloudless night sky.
It was the most glorious view I've ever witnessed -- and I was the only one there.
It is, how did he get to Io anyway?
ReplyDeleteEasy Skip: He clicked his heels twice while singing: "Io, Io it's off to Io Io go".
DeleteMarch, 1997, I was driving home from Prineville, OR, eastbound on Highway 14 in the Columbia River Gorge.
ReplyDeleteThere was an almost-total lunar eclipse that night, and I pulled over at the Cape Horn lookout and enjoyed it. The Moon was low on the horizon, and nicely framed by the Gorge.
Right above my head was Comet Hale-Bopp, in a cloudless night sky.
It was the most glorious view I've ever witnessed -- and I was the only one there.