This Picture is special because it is the one that nearly made me lose my cell phone.
I was standing on a rock near the stream to take a picture of the staircase. A fly came along and landed on my hand which I swatted at.* This made me drop my phone onto the sloping boulder. The back flew off and both pieces started sliding toward the edge. I luckily was able to grab the phone before it Thema and Louised it into the waiting pool. The back of my phone was not so fortunate and I could not talk it down before it took the leap. And unlike Kenny in the Platte the water was deeper than it looked. When I climbed down I found that the water where the Phone back was was deeper than my knees.
Cleverly I found a boulder and put it in the water to provide a stepping stone with which to stand while I reached into the arm deep pool. This was not nearly as cleaver as it seemed because the rock shifted and I nearly baptized my self calling out to God and everything. I had to try again, so I went for the thing a second time steadying myself on the boulder. I touched it but also a leaf that was decomposing in the cold liquid. I drew my hand back thinking some evil creature was about to attack and was forced to do one of those silly dances you do when you do not quite have your balance. But in the end, as we say when a that is the number of tries requred "Third time's a charm". And just as a universe could not be contemplated without being the kind of universe to support life that could contemplate it, this blog continues under a similar, but equipment based, anthropic priciple
*To those Gammaristas I know this is ambiguous, but I swatted at both my hand and the fly so bite it.
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