Memorial on Highway 14 in Colorado
I completely forgot that I had taken this video about 3 years ago when I was doing tech support for a local computer company here in Colorado. This flag was located just off Highway 14 between Fort Collins and Sterling along a lonely stretch through the Pawnee National Grasslands.
I know it's not the most amazing video footage ever shot, but there was just something starkly beautiful about this little flag blowing in the wind that day. Maybe it just reminds me of all the Native Americans who used to live in this part of the country but were kicked off their land yet whose "spirits" still inhabit the wind.
I'm not religious or spiritual at all, but if you've ever traveled around the American west and south west, it's hard not to feel a reverence for the land and appreciate that which the peoples who lived here for thousands of years must have felt about this land. It's bleak, harsh, dramatic and quite beautiful.
Too bad it's mostly filled with subdivisions these days.
EDIT : Here is a link to a previous blog post I made here that has a good picture of this flag and a couple of other photographs from that same day.
