May 17

This is a detail of a bas relief sculpture on the Arizona side of the Hoover Dam. This particular sculpture is a tribute the workers who perished during the dam’s construction, and is inscribed “They died to make the desert bloom.”

on top of Hoover Dam

photographed 5.30.2009

Posted on May 17, 2012, in architecture, Photography and tagged , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.

  1. Like the ocean’s waves
    intricacies of past times
    surge and then are gone.

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