We found a place to board Maggie for a few days so we could get away for a much needed road trip. Both Bonnie and I love mountains and forests in the winter and we even got to experience a brief blowing snow storm. We carved through beautiful curvy mountain roads, stopped for spectacular views and enjoyed excellent food and logging…all without crowds. Yelp, feeling recharged.
Maggie, she did okay but it’s going to take several days for her to return to “normal.” ;-)
Stay well, everyone!
I have heard of rivers being used as metaphors for life but this must be the first time I have seen it used as something separate from life as if life is the bad guy :)
Anyway, glad you and Bonnie managed to get away for a few days. Sounds like you had a lovely time. Gorgeous photo too. I like the compressed perspective making the rocks look like they are on a grassy, stony wall immediately behind the trees. Nature’s own home décor ;)
I read Mehmet Murat ildan was born in central/eastern Turkey, a mountainous region with numerous rivers and winter temperatures averaging well below freezing, so my assumption is he’d grown up observing the winter and its attempts to freeze and stop the progress of the river. A river in winter sharing lessons learned from tough times with those of us flowing through our own paths. I liked the unusual metaphor.
Thanks on the photo. It was made from a pulloff point high above the scene. I was surprised how compressed it appeared since I wasn’t using a really long lens…40mm (80mm ff). A lucky combination giving me this look but I’ll take it! :-)
Be well!
I wonder how often I miss something nature is trying to tell me. Maybe it’s more about learning how to converse with creation without words. Glad you are feeling charged!
Perhaps part of the process, Monte, is we have to be open to hearing and absorbing what’s being told. That empty bowl thing….difficult for me, but every once in a while… ;-)
Thanks!