Metagraywacke and amazing big rocks (mountains)

 If you have no interest in geology, just skip this post. We visited the museum on Mt. Mitchell, and I only took a few photos. It was definitely user friendly with lots of gadgets to push, wind, pull or turn.

The monument on top of the mountain, which has been replaced by a big platform with lots of explanations of what you're looking at.

Yes, I've posted about climbing to the platform, and looking at each direction to see which peaks were out there. It's really kind of fun at the moment, but later on sort of boring.

I loved this rock's name!

I did pick up a piece of gravel at the picnic area, which of course is illegal in state parks, I guess. But it also could have come from miles away and been trucked in there.

The town of Black Mountain is about 15 miles due south of Mt. Mitchell as the crow flies. Of course I've never flown it, but drive along the parkway to get there, about 30 miles or so that way.

Manipulative Republicans posted such stupidly hilarious photos of a dying (or perhaps brain dead) senator...as well as this contrived AI three-armed wife and 6-fingered man! The video of him break dancing is really hilarious. All for the love of power of majority votes. What kind of people do this?

Power is not about exerting our will over others, it is about being in complete truth with yourself.

-----------------------