Late breaking news: The iconic and much-photographed arch at Utah’s Arches National Park has fallen. The Park thinks it fell sometime last week, since no one was on hand to confirm the exact time and date when it happened. Wouldn’t that have been geological freak-out?! Its collapse has been attributed to the combined forces of gravity and erosion, not to wearing improper footwear.
Okay, enough with the goofing around. I truly am saddened that this ancient landmark is no more. But it serves to remind us that the earth is constantly changing, even if it’s just a few grains of sand a year, eventually everything suffers the same fate. Someday all the other arches will tumble, and eventually even the Rockies will be mere nubbins.
Arch photo from CBS news.
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