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.
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Gates of the Artic National Park and Preserve, Alaska.
Prolly a glacier-carved valley, and obviously with bears about.
ReplyDeleteThat's the one little tiny slice of it that isn't a flat, treeless tundra plain.
ReplyDeleteA muddy reminder to people that they're at the middle of the food chain thereabouts, not the top.
ReplyDeleteThe gates are guarded.
ReplyDeleteTurn around. Go back.
ReplyDeletethe last photo Bob ever took.
ReplyDelete"We found his pack, and this camera. Nothing else..."
DeleteEven the bears are taking pictures now? Would have been a selfie, but its arms are too short.
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