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What Does It All Mean??

            I am mystified by the tourist tradition of piling rocks in places of note.  Mt Washington, being a place of note, especially after the bladder challenging drive up a dirt road with no railings which caused me to doubt my dwindling sanity, or to chuck it altogether, causes one to be inspried, wistful, winsome, wondering and waxing gibbous about the meaning of life and how peaceful, remote and lovely the world is.  AND THEN you see a pile of rocks.  

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?  DID I DRIVE THAT INSANE DRIVE FOR THIS?  It's like the time I saw the Dalai Lama in college and a mohawked goth girl gave him a small rock and he smiled and nodded.  She was on cloud seventeen about the meaning of it all, when I was really thinking that he was probably murmuring "Great, another lunatic American giving me a friggin' rock".  Fortunately, he can do that murmuring in Tibetan and no one would be the wiser.

And still... I'm on top of Mt Washington, sweating from fear at the heights... and I see the pile of rocks.  Do I feel better about knowing the meaning of life?  Do I know what it all means?  Is the answer really 47?   Is it?

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Taken in: United States / New Hampshire / Marshfield Station (show map)

Taken on: July 15, 2012

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Camera: Canon EOS 7D, f/9.0, 1/80 sec, 31mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 7D
Lens:	EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	31mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0 Windows
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