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    NATURAL ATTRACTION

    Aug 25, 2022 3 minutes
    STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY E. DAN KLEPPER

    UST BEYOND THE BIG BEND community of Marathon, where I’ve lived and maintained an art studio and gallery for the past 22 years, the surrounding desert grasslands give way to weathered hillocks and low-rise mountains. Standing out among them lies a distinct knoll shaped like a pyramid. Each fall, the full moon rises directly over this hilltop as the setting sun infuses the landscape with an ember-like glow. The moon, golden as it peaks

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