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A lovely photo, it almost looks like you are very close up from this angle.
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Great shot hun and nice to have you back...
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Thanks so very much Teresa!!!
Β Cindy
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Pleasure always dearest Cindy...
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Thanks so much my friend.
Cindy
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your so welcome my friendΒ
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I really do not want to comment - for there are others who could / should be there too.....
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Sorry you feel that way Mel, but the artists passion drove him to excellence, regardless of who is or isn't there, it is a magnificentΒ display of his intensity.
Between October 4, 1927, and October 31, 1941, Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers sculpted the colossal 60 footΒ high carvings of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln to represent the first 130 years of American history. These presidents were selected by Borglum because of their role in preserving the Republic and expanding its territory. The carving of Mount Rushmore involved the use of dynamite, followed by the process of "honeycombing" In total, about 450,000 short tons (408,233 t) of rock were blasted off the mountainside. The image of Thomas Jefferson was originally intended to appear in the area at Washington's right, but after the work there was begun, the rock was found to be unsuitable, so the work on the Jefferson figure was dynamited, and a new figure was sculpted to Washington's left
Cindy
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I was not being negative - it is, as you say a work of excellence!!
Thanks for sharing the history too!!
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Didn't mean you were, it is just that while there allot of people talked of who wasn't there instead of centering on the artists work. Have a grand day Mel
Cindy
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Many welcomes, Ranger Cindy. 
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