This is my other choice for the photo challenge. I was hiking there many years ago….nothing has changed! That’s one of those places where one builds their memories and strengthens their principles. That’s where time has no meaning, and life as we know it has never happened. One day…one day I will see it again!
I love a challenge! But the truth is, this one is so hard to pic for! So I will delight you with more than one…you know, since I can’t make up my mind which is best…
It’s just the beginning of another hot day in Texas…yesterday I saw a lot of pelicans splattered on the causeway; I had to swerve quite abruptly a couple of times. At least I didn’t see them falling! Although I can’t think of something that might have caused the demise of so many of them… I think they were suicidal, or they had a war of some kind…this heat is getting to all of us! The whole picture hit me like a punch in the stomach; I guess I’m too humane for these times…
As I always do when something like this happens, I ran to find my happy place. As I was digging through thousands of memories, this picture became as vivid as the day I was there the first time. And as cool and soothing as the quiet up there..
I wanted to share this image with you, in case you needed a break from the heat.
There is a top of the mountain, in a faraway country, that bears the thought of a man.
It’s not a nursery rhyme. This is the sphinx. It’s high up on the Carpathians, and the climb to it is rough, long and tiresome. The wind is strong, the air is sharp, the sky is deep and the time stands still there. The feeling you get is more like a heart attack, than a reverie. You get so filled with it all, and your lungs can’t cope with the thin air, your chest gets all tight, you can’t breathe, and your brain feels too large for your skull; you can feel it popping and cracking…You try to breathe, but there isn’t enough air to fill your chest, and you start seeing everything brighter, the noise is dim, and any scream that you may muster fades into the deep below you…
I’ve been there a long time ago. But I remembered it because today I felt these things again, only this time it wasn’t the hight that made them happen. This will be a short post, as my oxygen ran out, not due to the lack of it, but to the kind of day that this was…Enjoy this view!
And don’t forget: you have a place that makes you feel like this; send me a picture…my kids are coming in two weeks, they want to see the world through your eyes! Share your treasure…
