The snowy mountains are red with sunset, an asphalt road curves up into the distance bordered by brush and oaks

Mountain Heart

This morning, I woke acutely aware of a heavy and achy heart, difficult to sluff. At some point, I was spilled out on the floor pondering after trying to begin the day, and I remembered the bare rock of the mountains gloriously red-bathed. And I thought how human hearts hurt when we let life live big in us.

21 February 2025

On the way up to Slate Canyon in Provo, Utah

30mm, f/5.6, 1/250s, ISO 500

Sony a6300 with 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 lens

The sun halfway sets below the mountains to the west on the other side of the lake, below part of town, and above the orange lit clouds

That's the setting sun that lit the mountain so.

A road with long shadows on it, trees and houses, and behind them the snowy mountains catching the setting suns yellow glow

This is in the neighborhood before I headed uphill for a view.

The snowy mountains catching bands of sunset light, viewed from a baseball field, some buildings behind it, and above the mountains some glowy misty looking clouds

clouds soft