Monday, June 05, 2006

Fence Post

Just a fence post holding up some barbed wire. But the pattern of the wood caught my eye, so instead of focusing on Chimney Rock in the background, I told my camera to focus on the fence post.

If trees have feelings, I think this tree would be happy to be made into a fence post in such a historic place. I suspect, however, that most people who visit this spot focus instead on the famous deteriorating rock in the background.

Are you collecting all the state quarters? Nebraska put Chimney Rock on their quarter--an absolutely hilarious choice: The back of the quarter shows a pioneer family from somewhere in the east--not Nebraskans--heading west toward the setting sun, trying desperately to get out of the Nebraska portion of the Oregon Trail with its dangers and dryness and death. The message on the quarter amounts to this: "We're FINALLY to the end of Nebraska. Hooray!" Or perhaps it's "Nebraska: the place to survive on the way to where you're really going." The tourism folks must have worked overtime on that one.

Photo taken Monday morning, June 5, 2006.
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