Above a field with an old barn in it, the mountains with some peachy, misty clouds

"Mountains Misty-Topt"

Last winter, I was out biking most evenings. Perhaps it was a little warmer this day, and that's why I paused, started a time-lapse, and enjoyed the views.

22 February 2024

Provo, Utah

35mm, f/5.6, 1/250s, ISO 320

Sony a6300 with 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 lens

A gravel road, a field, some houses, and above them the snowy mountains engulfed in peachy clouds

Above the moist farmlands and behind some powerlines, the sun sinks glows red from between the mountains and clouds.

Snowy mountains topped with misty clouds, the nearly full moon hazy, peaking up out of the clouds

I love being surprised by the moon: a thin crescent hanging above town in the early evening, the moon bright and yellow from behind a peak on the night road, or the moon suddenly materializing out of the misty clouds. Check out that time-lapse!

The nearly full moon above snowy mountains at dusk misty with clouds

I am he that walks in the tender and growing night;
I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.

Press close barebosomed night! Press close magnetic nourishing night!
Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars!
Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night!

Smile O volupteous coolbreathed earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!
Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!
Smile, for your lover comes!

~ Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (lines 434-446)