Swords Against the Mountains.

Coal mine ruins, Barnesboro, Cambria County Pennsylvania.

Barnesboro.

Cresson.

Portgage.

Barnesboro.

Swords poke holes in things. Stuff comes out. When you take a sword to a mountain acid mine drainage (AMD) comes out. And there goes your river. Turns it neon orange if iron, milky blue if aluminum, different colors, none of them life colors.

Poked a hole in the mountain in Portgage in the 1920's. Stuff came out. Capped it and then in the 1970's the cap blew off. Stuff's been coming out ever since. Killed everything around it. Wikipedia says the Hughes Borehole has an "eerie beauty" to it. Wikipedia ought to go fucking live there. Lovely barbwire chain link fence, too. "Artsy."

Wikipedia, them's sorta like the colors in them pertty Elvis paintings on velvet, ain't they?

Beauty lovers.

That one above is from a site called amdandart.org, Acid Mine Drainage and Art!  To me it looks like something I et and lost but, you know, beauty is in the eye, & etc.

I swear, that green really does look like stuff I've seen at autopsies.

When  iron AMD  hits life-sustaining water it turns it orange. The shit creek looked like this. That's the Conemaugh, the Little Conemaugh, the East Conemaugh, some Conemaugh, not the West Branch of the Susquehanna.

Find most anything in the 5,000 miles of rivers and streams in Pennsylvania polluted--Adorned! Beautifully adorned.--by AMD. Just not much living.