Common sense isn't.
After visiting the windmills, around sunset one evening we found our way to an abandoned mine. The opening was still accessible (unobstructed), and we looked around and took a few pictures.
There were two mine shafts.
The first is seen in the left center of this picture, and the
second was farther to the left. Towards the right, past the
Suburban, is seen the remnants of ventilation ducting. A steady
stream of water was draining out from the ducting, into a settling
pool, and down the hill.
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This blurry, poorly lit
picture shows the view from the opening into the shaft.
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This picture shows the
second shaft opening, which is nearly covered with brush and
debris.
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A few weeks later we took
these pictures of a piece of mining equipment next to the road a
short distance from the mine. By this time, workers were using
a bulldozer to cover the mine opening and prepare the area for
seeding. Subsequently, this equipment was removed.
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| Quote of the moment |
| The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. XV, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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