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Thursday, November 4, 2010

The mountain is out today.....and it is Friday!

The mountain has been out for the past three days here in the Puget Sound.  If you live in the shadow of the mountain (Mt. Rainier) you know what I mean when I say this. Kim Derting, a local author of the wonderful YA novel, The Body Finder, told me that she referred to the mountain being out in her book and her publisher asked her to explain what she meant before publication.  I guess it is a local idiom.  Often Mt. Rainier is obscured by clouds for weeks on end and then on a clear day, there it is again.  It is a gift to receive the mountain's beauty every time.  I have a wonderful view of the mountain from my library and I've been blessed this week.

The photo of Mt. Rainier was taken from just outside my library last year.  But you get the idea of what a wonderful view I have when the mountain is out.

Since this photo is so tiny I thought I'd share a photo that I found that is very close to what I see while I'm driving home on Sunrise Blvd.  Honestly, it is this big and domineering.
Pretty spectacular, huh?  See why those of us in the Puget Sound Region of Western Washington are quite smitten and love it when the mountain is out? 

(While I am writing this blog I have on the Evening News in the background and the meteorologist is forecasting rain.  Bummer, the mountain will be hidden tomorrow!)

Hi Friday Blogger Hoppers from Crazy for Books!  Yes, I do notice when people un-follow my blog but I am not that in tune with my list of followers to ever know who has actually left.  Once I posted a rather controversial blog about books I'd never be caught reading and the first person that looked at my diary stopped following me.  I was hurt for minute and then decided it was better that they didn't follow my blog if they were offended by something I said.  I don't know how to un-follow (tee-hee) so once I follow a blog, I am a follower for life!

Witness   by Denise Levertov
Sometimes the mountain
is hidden from me in veils
of cloud, sometimes
I am hidden from the mountain
in veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue
when I forget or refuse to go
down to the shore or a few yards
up the road, on a clear day,
to reconfirm
that witnessing presence.
                                           -Levertov, Denise. Selected Poems. New York:New Directions, 2002.


Happy Friday!

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