Islands In Time

These are
islands in time
with nothing
to date them
on the calendar
of mankind.
In these areas
it is as though
a person were
looking backward
into the ages
and forward
untold years.
Here are bits
of eternity,
which have
a preciousness
beyond all accounting.
--Harvey Broome



from the Royal Arch Route (top)
view west from Hermit's Rest (middle)
Mencius and Confucius Temples (below)