Such is the way of the world
You can never know
Just where to put all your faith
And how will it grow

Gonna rise up
Burning back holes in dark memories
Gonna rise up
Turning mistakes into gold

Such is the passage of time
Too fast to fold
And suddenly swallowed by signs
Low and behold

Gonna rise up
Find my direction magnetically
Gonna rise up
Throw down my ace in the hole...

[link] Rise - Eddie Vedder






(I've finally had some time to work on my image backlog. this is another from the summer... looking across the valley and up towards black bear pass... shot while on the way up Red Mnt 3. south of Ouray, Co.)

And I want to walk with you on a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high...


[link] nora jones


this past summer at Last Dollar Ranch as clouds begin to wrap Mt Sneffels... near Ridgeway, Colorado.

My hands are searching for you.
My arms are outstretched towards you.
I feel you on my fingertips...

I can feel you all around me.

[link] flyleaf

that's kind of how it feels.

you look all around you and the entire world stretches out forever but seems as if it is still just right at your finger tips. a glance transports you and your thoughts over the horizon. One is never more completely removed from, yet a part of the world..... of course it could just be the oxygen deprivation.

Colorado... a Spanish word for Red, It's kind of easy to see how this was decided upon as a place name. this is near sunset, looking down on Red Mnts. #1 & #2 as seen from the summit of, the rather imaginatively named, Red Mnt. #3. the road (I use the term loosely) you see is Corkscrew Pass, the first pass of the morning.

"The stunning red, maroon, orange, and yellow colors of the Red Mountains are primarily due to past hydrothermal alteration of these rocks. Hydrothermal alteration is literally the process of "hot water" circulation through the strata that changes the mineral composition of the original rocks. Hydrothermal fluids commonly contain significant concentrations of metals and sulfur. Hydrothermally altered rocks can contain significant amounts of disseminated sulfide minerals, primarily pyrite (iron sulfide). This process happened within and surrounding the Silverton caldera. Subsequent erosion of the strata exposes the pyrite to oxidation, and as the iron combines with oxygen it turns the rock various colors evident in the Red Mountains. "

south of Ouray, Colorado.

Touch my skin, and tell me what you're thinking.
Take my hand and show me where we're going.
Lie down next to me, look into my eyes and tell me, oh tell me, what you're seeing.

So sit on top of the world and tell me how you're feeling.
What you feel is what I feel for you.
Take my hand and if I'm lying to you
I'll always be alone,
If I'm lying to you.

See my eyes, they carry your reflection.
Watch my lips and hear the words I'm telling you.
Give your trust to me and look into my heart and show me, show me what you're doing.

So sit on top of the world and tell me how you're feeling.
What you feel is what I feel for you.

Take my hand and if I'm lying to you
I'll always be alone,
If I'm lying to you.
Take your time and if I'm lying to you
I know you'll find that you believe me.
You believe me, you believe me.

Feel the sun on your face and tell me what you're thinking.
Catch the snow on your tongue and show me how it tastes...

[link] dido

It looked to me as if the one tree was reaching for the other and this song came to mind. a smoking song and just an insane sunset...a three image fusion.

When I step into the light
My arms are open wide
When I step into the light
My eyes searching wildly
Would you not like to be
Sitting on top of the world with
Your legs hanging free,
Would you not like to be ok?

When I'm walking by the water
Splish splash me and you takin' a bath
When I'm walking by the water
Come up through my toes
To my ankles
To my head
To my soul
And I'm blown away.

I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Wondering if we had
Spent our living days well
I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we
Might have been.

I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Wondering if we had
Spent our living days well
I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we
Might have been.

Would you not like to be
I can't believe that you
Would not like to be
Would you not like to be
Ok...

[link] dave matthews, tim reynolds - lie in our graves



(a great morning coffee from the summer. I had the place to myself for a while and sat and sipped. this is Crystal Lake... it's just one of those places where words fail, located south of Ouray Colorado.)

Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down...

[link] john mayer


near the summit of red mnt. #1 looking down and across to red mnt. #2 and #3. south of Ouray, Colorado. what goes up must come down I suppose. this is from around 12,300 ft. or so. I love how even here on this desolate looking slope you see the tiniest little purple flowers holding on.

Beautiful, you're beautiful,
as beautiful as the sun.
Wonderful, you're wonderful,
as wonderful as they come.
And I can't help but feel attached
To the feelings I can't even match.
With my face pressed up to the glass, wanting you.

Beautiful, you're beautiful,
as beautiful as the sky...

[link] smashing pumpkins - beautiful


(sunset on the south canadian river.)

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops.


― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories


this is somewhere off the trail to Blue Lakes in the Mnt Sneffels Wilderness area.

Bring on the wonder.
Bring on the song...

[link] susan enan

The selfish, they're all standing in line,
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time.
Me, I figure as each breath goes by,
I only own my mind.

The North is to South what the clock is to time.
There's east and there's west and there's everywhere life.
I know I was born and I know that I'll die.
The in between is mine.
I am mine...

[link] pearl jam - I am mine