William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas, May 12, 2007

Seagull walking on beach, Norfolk, Virginia, December 13, 2007

Unidentified children wading along Sandy Cove, beach, Canton Lake, Oklahoma, August 29, 2009

Colorado National Monument, Colorado, September 17, 2011

High flow after recent rains, Cedar Falls, Petit Jean State Park, October 31, 2009
at the end of Cedar Falls trail

Cosmic Cavern, Berryville, Arkansas, July 15, 2011

Art on Sunday #12

Hope
A white man holding a black baby.

John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, memorializes the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, the worst civil disturbance in American History.

Hope Plaza– The Park entry’s 16-foot granite structure contains three larger-than-life bronze sculptures representing actual pictures from the 1921 riot (JHFCFR website):

• Hostility – A white man fully armed for assault
• Humiliation – A black man with his hands raised in surrender
• Hope – The white director of the Red Cross holding a black baby

Much more information on the park and sculptures is available at the Exit78 page, Reconciliation.

Two young bull Rocky Mountain elk, Moraine Park meadows,
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, August 31, 2009.

The elk in the foreground is a mature, but young, non-dominant bull.  The other is an immature bull, with two spikes for his antler.

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Prickly Poppy, Nebraska Sand Hills, North of North Platte, Lincoln County, August 17, 2007