Inside The Toshodaiji Temple, Nara, Japan
5 w% |" l `% H5 g* P1 W/ w# q I did take a picture S. \8 f" @; w' i1 t. b
of the small temple
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But what moved me
7 t5 b/ ^- m- T5 nwas the mossy surface
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Street Front In Butte, Montana Early morning,
( J. c$ [+ _* F' G7 {" y/ l! Q8 ]not a soul on the streets of Butte, Montana.: D) q% L- B! r! M8 U5 T
It was as if I had walked into my favorite painting
6 s( n! A6 Y. x7 Tof Edward Hopper:6 o" k& y" ]/ s: ^; w
"Early Sunday Morning", painted in 1930.
Z5 s- w$ w; Z1 V G/ NIt was Sunday, indeed. Indian Cemetery In Montana The wooden church next to the Indian Cemetery
" ` D; _, v% u7 T0 o) pwas all boarded up.9 F: X. B+ r) A/ l3 s) x; E+ M
I walked around for an hour $ B, B, b3 p; r, s, B; a1 I
and read all the names on the graves.$ J$ i; r! s1 R6 D6 o s1 I; ~
Some of the men had died in the Vietnam war.) ^: T4 x0 p) A- j- S
Travelling Wolf had died before.
8 o6 A- x( Q# c# dAccording to the cross on his grave d8 h: j8 N) B
he was 22 years old,
|& V1 w) J5 |7 \) Zwhen Edward Curtis photographed the Blackfeet Indians
& ~$ I& U7 b) S* W. ain this part of Montana, in the year 1900.
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