An Old Rugged Cross

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On a patch of land, down a dirt road, around a hill, between two Colorado mountain towns, there is an old family graveyard that dates from the time of settlers moving to the west in North America. It’s not known how many are buried there, and only one of the graves is marked with a stone. Marking the whole of it is an old and worn wooden cross, adorned with barbed wire and with a cross-piece taken from an old horse harness. There may well be debate over which stands taller: the cross or the mountain behind it.

An Old Rugged Cross
In the image, a mountain in the distance covers most the frame, with and old wooden cross in the foreground. The cross is adorned with barbed wire and a cross beam made from part if a horse harness.© Randy Heffner inspect image detail »
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  • Title: An Old Rugged Cross
  • © 2025 by Randy Heffner, all rights reserved
  • Digital photograph
  • Native aspect ratio is 3:2, so uncropped print sizes include 6x4 inches, 12x8, 18x12, 36x24, and 60x40.

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17 Jul 2025; updated 19 Jul 2025
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Randy Heffner

Randy lives at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and culture — reading, watching, walking, and sometimes creating in search of our better selves. Film and photography have a lot to do with it, but anyway, art. The tie is an anomaly.

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