Word a Week Photo Challenge: Mountain

I haven’t participated in A Word in Your Ear’s photo challenge in a while, but when Sue’s dictionary dealt up ‘mountain’ this week, I got very excited indeed.

What is it about mountains that draws people to them? Well, they’re beautiful. Yes, but why? Why do folks almost universally stand in awe when presented with a mountain range? Why is a mountain landscape so much more appealing than, say, a vast plain of corn or the seemingly endless green of the flat Yucatan forests? Is it their sheer bulk? Is it the infinite diversity of form and slope and shape? Is it the way the eye trips over them, slides through the valleys and up the peaks, holds them against the overwhelming immensity of the empty sky?

I don’t know, really, but when holiday times come around, our family usually heads for some elevation. Here’s a collection of shots from some of your travels – hope you enjoy.

Apple tree and mountains, Radnig, Austria

Bog cotton and mountains, Trafrask, Beara Peninsula, Ireland

View from cable car, Bohinj, Slovenia

Cemetery and steeple, Hallstatt, Austria

Church steeple, Radnig, Austria

Wolfgangsee, Austria

Bohinj, Slovenia

D and Grandma, Renvyle beach, Ireland

Lake Bohinj, Slovenia

Mountain hut, Jezersko, Slovenia

Na Pali coast, Kauai

Deer, Kleefeld, Austria

Evening lake, Connemara, Ireland

Cemetery, Beara Peninsula, Ireland

Flying over Greenland

Hallstatt See with mountains and mallards

Hallstattersee, Austria

Hiking, Kleefeld, Austria

Jezersko, Slovenia

Horses at Makek Farm, Jezersko, Slovenia

Gulf of Kotor, Montenegro

Kylemore Lough, Ireland

Lake Bled, Slovenia

Late afternoon light, Reinsberg, Austria

orchard, mountains, and wooden building, Makek farm

Makek Farm, Jezersko, Slovenia

Please do not plummet to your death, Slovenia

Snow-covered mountains, Greenland

Snowdrops and peaks, Austria

Summit, Nassfeld, Austria

Wolfgangsee, Austria

Taro fields, Hanalei Valley, Kauai

the white spot in the center is a helicopter, to give one some sense of scale

Waimea Canyon, Kauai. The tiny white spot is a helicopter, to give a sense of scale.

Wild iris, Trafrask, Ireland

Sella Ronda, Campitello, Italy

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

Thanks once again, Sue. A marvelous word this week!

2 thoughts on “Word a Week Photo Challenge: Mountain”

They are beautiful mountains but my favorite is the Summit, Austria.

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mmtread says:

May 17, 2013 at 8:48 pm

Thanks, bebs1. They were all very, very beautiful places. And yes, the blue-tinted view from the summit at Nassfeld was particularly stunning. Thanks for visiting and for your comments!

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