Smile / by Dave Hileman

I imagine this is just graffiti and as such ought to be discouraged but here in the Alabama Hills, CA this has been painted in with eyes and lips for decades. It does change a bit, one showed spiky teeth and a much brighter star behind the eye, another had elaborate eyelashes. I don’t know how often someone takes the initiative to report this rock, nor do I remember what they called it but in the sameness of the landscape and the dust that swirls into every nook and pore, it makes you smile.

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