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Summary

This photo was taken on April 27, 2008 using a Canon PowerShot G9. Life and Death

"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens." Benjamin Disraeli

I try to "Walk In Beauty" and post photos of beauty. I often see reality but rarely post it. This reality confronted me today. It was a tough hike for me. I was hiking the Four Peaks Trail #130 north of Roosevelt Dam and Roosevelt Lake heading into the Four Peaks Wilderness. This trail is part of the Arizona Trail AZT which crosses Arizona from the border with Mexico to the border with Utah.

“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.” William Saroyan

“I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself.” Joseph Conrad

"Through the Jungle very softly flits a shadow and a sigh - / He is Fear, O Little Hunter, he is Fear!” Rudyard Kipling

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