{"id":4109,"date":"2021-01-26T15:07:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2021-01-26T15:07:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:37:36","slug":"the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=4109","title":{"rendered":"The Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am a flatlander by birth, when I saw my first mountain in real life I was rather frightened by it. But over the years I have become accustomed to the mountains, and I love to look at how the light changes them. And having a mountain nearby makes it easy to navigate wherever one might be in town, one can always find one’s bearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wasn’t too far from my house, but it’s a slightly different view than the one through my front window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Downtown near the motorway the mountain looks rather shrunken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was in the middle of town on this day and the mountain was engulfed in a cloud. It looked as though it was being eaten (perhaps by aliens riding and hiding in the cloud).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I can’t resist the occasional glorious sunset over the mountain, even though I have lots of these shots taken over the years. On this day I was on the eastern edge of town, driving away from the sunset, but I could see this in the rear-view mirror. I pulled over quickly to photograph this, and seconds later it was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today however, the mountain is a total mystery, as it has disappeared in the snow and fog. Tomorrow it will reappear in it’s newest iteration, lovely and different in its’ own way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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