Inside The Toshodaiji Temple, Nara, Japan
# @; R& U" ]0 ?7 B& h, X1 _3 H7 r I did take a picture 2 O/ B1 p6 [" u, a" s" T3 o+ ~ \
of the small temple
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behind this wall.$ y1 H$ v1 i9 q9 v C7 ]$ [5 B& N
But what moved me
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Street Front In Butte, Montana Early morning,
' w( t/ S: s4 C @8 P3 E' Nnot a soul on the streets of Butte, Montana.
: {! Z! v( y5 j) l8 JIt was as if I had walked into my favorite painting
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"Early Sunday Morning", painted in 1930.
, O1 C$ L" Q$ y9 }- yIt was Sunday, indeed. Indian Cemetery In Montana The wooden church next to the Indian Cemetery
4 a0 f- ]" y, p2 S6 wwas all boarded up.
' @. a( C+ U; p n5 sI walked around for an hour
* ^/ M9 ~$ X i9 \+ q6 s, n6 `and read all the names on the graves.
6 ?: U: x8 ^$ r7 A9 O( c7 h7 ISome of the men had died in the Vietnam war.
) y/ f8 M2 u! Q- Q" b7 }Travelling Wolf had died before.
+ }# Z6 m! b6 ]% y2 bAccording to the cross on his grave
, Z4 D; R) i) z- t+ ^/ Lhe was 22 years old,1 n, v$ G0 o; T: @ h7 [
when Edward Curtis photographed the Blackfeet Indians ^1 d. |, }8 q5 w# q! R
in this part of Montana, in the year 1900.
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