mountaintop moments

from the foothills
or the deepest valley
the icy peaks seem…
romantic

we long to be
there

anyplace but here

but there is a reason no one
– nothing –
lives there

in time –
the cold
the thin air
the lack
the lack
the lack

would never sustain.

mountaintops are meant for moments.

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Race the Sky
Tantalus Range
Sea to Sky Highway
Near Squamish
British Columbia, Canada

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Time ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #242

This week, let’s keep Time, or find something else to inspire you in this time-lapse photograph of clouds racing above the Tantalus Mountain Range, along the Sea to Sky Highway, in British Columbia, Canada.

The Pic and a Word Challenge is a weekly creativity prompt offered Mondays.

The challenge? Use the pic and/or word as points of inspiration to create something — a photograph, a painting, prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, longread or just a few words. You are welcome to use these two elements (photograph and word) literally, thematically or metaphorically. If you create both images and words, all the better.

To participate:

• Use any title you like
• Your response can be words and/or images
• You may use my image in your post, or any image you have created
• Mention that you are responding to the Pic and a Word Challenge
• Add a link to this post in your response