Christine December 6th, 2007
Someone wrote me today from West Virginia via our Weather page about this photo. Her impression being the image acquired the semblance of a stairway to heaven. I understand her visual reference, (I doubt she intended the musical one) because the snow chute does mimic steps somewhat, but it looks to be rather a lonely and perhaps treacherous stairway, more so as the afternoon veiled the summit in clouds. The dim light enhanced the snow chute; it isn’t that visible sometimes while it gets filled up with well — snow. We often think the peaks feel Tolkienesque at times, even before the Trilogy movies were filmed. Click to enlarge the lonely mountain.
Winter solitude—
In a world of one color
The sound of wind. — Basho
Related posts:
- Stairway to snow
- Last light of the day
- Iron Mountain Summit
- Mountain morning ~SWF
- Snow Geese & the Rocky Mountain Front
