Money isn't everything ...
It can buy a bed - but not sleep.
It can buy a clock - but not time.
It can buy a book - but not knowledge.
It can buy a position - but not respect.
It can buy a medicine - but not health.
It can buy a blood - but not life.
It can buy a sex - but not love.
So send me all your money and I will suffer for you.
Penitentes are:
Dazzling natural-forming ice columns,
or more accurately ice blades,
that stick up at sharp angles towards the sun.
Rarely found except at high altitudes,
they can grow taller than a human
and form in vast fields.
Pictures
These were taken by me in Jan 2009
on a mountain slope somewhere between
"Plaza Argentina" base camp and high-camp 1,
in Argentina's Mt Aconcagua,
highest mountain in South America.
1) First, an entire slope of penitentes
with a trail through it.