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Prepared controlled fire burn today at Devils Tower.
Taken with drone outside of National Monument.
Photographed 17Oct2017
Devils Tower (also Bear Lodge Butte), Wyoming, USA, 1986.
Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.
The phonolite tower is 1,267 feet high.
The moral theology of the devil starts out with the principle: “Pleasure is sin.” The he goes on to work it the other way: “All sin is pleasure.”
After that he points out that pleasure is practically unavoidable and that we have a natural tendency to do things that please us, from which he reasons that all our natural tendencies are evil and that our nature is evil in itself. And he leads us to the conclusion that no one can possibly avoid sin, since pleasure is inescapable.
After that, to make sure that no one will try to escape or avoid sin, he adds that what is unavoidable connot be a sin. Then the whole concept of sin is thrown out the window as irrelevant, and people decide that there is nothing left except to live for pleasure, and in that way pleasures that are naturally good become evil by de-ordination and lives are thrown away in unhappiness and sin.
Thomas Merton, The Moral Theology of the Devil
A rather evil looking cat, was a lucky capture as he didnt stay ontop of that gravestone long once I started approaching him with my shorter lens.
Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). This little guy was running around its enclosure at Healesville Sanctuary. Looks cute and fluffy...
I think this is a devil scorpionfish rather than a stonefish.
Most of the time devil scorpionfish ( like stonefish) lie immobile and are so well camoflaged they are not easily noticed. They are ambush predators which lunge at passing fish and gulp them down.
If threatened they will erect a row of venomous spines along their back. (It seems the venom of the devil scorpionfish may be less painful and dangerous than that of the stonefish but I have no wish to test that out).
Along the Red Beds Trail. A beautiful hiking trail to take while at the park, just wish I had been there earlier in the day for some better morning light. A beautiful scene regardless.