The mountains are calling ..

Since my days as a graduate student in the United States of America, I have nourished a hope of visiting the Great Smoky mountains. Fifteen years have passed and the time has now come! 

 

Every window shows us a glimpse of God ..

Having just read John Muir's mountain book "My First Summer in the Sierra" the following lines speak to me as the excitement builds everyday.. "We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us."  ... 

"Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

The mountains are calling and I must go - John Muir