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.
I grew up 10 miles from that peak. Highest point in Texas at 8751 feet. Climbed to the top at least 3 times before the Park service took over and put a trail in About 100 miles east of El Paso
This is not as bad as the Llano Estacado. "In nine days’ march I reached some plains, so vast that I did not find their end anywhere I went … plains with no more landmarks than as if we had been swallowed up in the sea, where our guides strayed about, because there was not a stone, nor a bit of rising ground, nor a tree, nor a shrub, nor anything to go by …" - Max Crawford, Lords of the Plain, 1997
I grew up 10 miles from that peak.
ReplyDeleteHighest point in Texas at 8751 feet. Climbed to the top at least 3 times before the Park service took over and put a trail in
About 100 miles east of El Paso
Spring time wild flowers!
ReplyDeleteWow. Horizon to horizon, not a single tree.
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This is not as bad as the Llano Estacado.
Delete"In nine days’ march I reached some plains, so vast that I did not find their end anywhere I went … plains with no more landmarks than as if we had been swallowed up in the sea, where our guides strayed about, because there was not a stone, nor a bit of rising ground, nor a tree, nor a shrub, nor anything to go by …" - Max Crawford, Lords of the Plain, 1997
When Texas get's it's wildflower show going in the spring it is something to see!
ReplyDeleteWait, Texas is beautiful! Who knew?
ReplyDeletebeautiful picture, shame that there is a wind farm out of the frame
ReplyDeleteSome spring times in Colorado are like this... but only if it rains some.
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