A wall crumbeling

Seen by an old hat

Piles of bricks abode

Snake across the horizon

Watching ever carfeully

As if history may disappear.

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This photo was taken in March of 2006 and focuses on an elderly resident of a small mountain village two hours outside of Beijing along the great wall in between Mutianyu and Simatai. He helped us navigate around this area's "ye changcheng" (wild great wall). I snapped this photo while he was looking out over the wall which appears to stretch into infinity across the horizon from in front of a crumbeling guard tower.