A earthy home as the suggested meme for this week. But I've shared some sod houses before on Sepia Saturday. So today I wish to look at the rocks of the earth, which have been the source of livelihood for the area in the Rocky Mountains where I now life.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
- Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
And let's not forget that the earth is the source of our food.
ReplyDeleteYes, a very true thing to think about.
DeleteMining -- such hard and dangerous work for those who extract the minerals. So profitable for those who own the mines.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that mountains have minerals...I wonder if the flatter parts of the world do as well, but we just don't know how to find them. After all oil has been found in flat places.
DeleteI did some oral history recordings in Alaska with some miners. Very hard and dangerous work. The miners were in their 80s when I recorded them and shared some of their stories.
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed a dangerous job, and some places still are.
DeleteYou are mining a lot of local material. Are you happy there?
ReplyDeleteI guess so. Not sure what my happy gauge is these days. Satisfied, yes.
DeleteThe old mine buildings are intriguing.
ReplyDeleteThey sure are.
DeleteWhat great history here. Um, there!
ReplyDeleteI mostly just want to say I adore your bowl!
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