balanced rock

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.  
--Euripides (c. 480-406 BC) Greek playwright.

Above: Balanced Rock at Garden of the Gods. The rock has long been an attraction for visitors to Colorado Springs. It wasn't part of the original gift of land (480 acres) by the Perkins family to the city in 1909. Instead, the owner charged visitors twenty-five cents to have their picture taken next to it. Eventually the 275 acre parcel containing Balanced Rock was sold to the city for $25,000 in 1932. It remains a very popular attraction.

The photo to the left, taken sometime between 1898 and 1905, is from the Library of Congress.

Click here for an interesting article about the rock.