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Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - Union MO

Moonrise over Rio Grande Cliffs, Caballo Lake State Park, NM, May 4, 2012
Moonrise over Rio Grande Cliffs, Caballo Lake State Park, NM, May 4, 2012

Practice, practice

This was taken the night of May 4, 2012, the night before the big moonrise of the year everyone was so eager to capture. Back on my post after that big night I indicated I hoped I got a few interesting shots of the moonrise and I'd like to think I did. Tomorrow I'll start posting a short series of my favorites here as I wander eastward toward Red Rock.

Night camp

Wal-Mart Supercenter in Union MO

Walmart Supercenter Store #21, 185 Saint Robert Blvd, Saint Robert, MO 65584 - (573) 336-5103

A Voyage and a Harbor

The native American was forced westward by the young escaping the limits of east coast villages that had been established only a generation or two earlier by parents escaping the limits of European villages. From then on, whether seeking a whale, rafting with Huck Finn, easy riding with Peter Fonda, or next week in Cancun, there has been a strong belief in America that happiness lies somewhere else. And yet as we find freedom we also rediscover loneliness. As geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says, we require both shelter and venture. We need freedom and support, silence and cacophony, the vast and distant but also the warm and near, a voyage and a harbor, the great adventure and the hobbit hole. Much of the iconography of our times gives little sense of this. Instead, the individual is treated as a self-sufficient, self-propelled vehicle moving across a background of other things, other places, and other people.

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