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 used to love to go out to my local trout stream when the weather was like that. No one around. Everything was peaceful and silent including my mind......
That picture reminds me of the little town I grew up in in the Sierra. Dead quiet with a snow like that, then along comes the county man, Bill Groves, driving the plow truck at 3AM. It was a sound almost as good as the silence before it.
Bill was an interesting guy. He grew potatoes in a bed of pine needles, had sprinklers on his rooves in case a fire came through and was the maintainer of the town's water supply up the hill. You could always tell the state inspector had paid a visit because there would be a couple of empty Clorox jugs laying on the ground next to the little reservoir. All of us locals used to get a chuckle out of that. We'd say, "It looks like the state man came by to keep Bill honest".
supposed to get lake effect snow in a couple of days here in western ny
ReplyDeleteThis is what we looked like Sunday evening after dinner.
ReplyDeleteI used to love to go out to my local trout stream when the weather was like that. No one around. Everything was peaceful and silent including my mind......
ReplyDeleteThat picture reminds me of the little town I grew up in in the Sierra. Dead quiet with a snow like that, then along comes the county man, Bill Groves, driving the plow truck at 3AM. It was a sound almost as good as the silence before it.
ReplyDeleteBill was an interesting guy. He grew potatoes in a bed of pine needles, had sprinklers on his rooves in case a fire came through and was the maintainer of the town's water supply up the hill. You could always tell the state inspector had paid a visit because there would be a couple of empty Clorox jugs laying on the ground next to the little reservoir. All of us locals used to get a chuckle out of that. We'd say, "It looks like the state man came by to keep Bill honest".
Fun times.
As long as it's on a computer monitor and not looking out my window
ReplyDeleteI used sit under the pines in our front yard and listen to the sound of falling snow...then I grew up and lost a lot appreciation for snow.
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