He stood on the lip of the plateau. The highest point of the peak. The sky glowed faintly above what appeared at first to be a line of cumulus clouds. Only they were not at all. They were forming way too fast. Faster than the sun’s rays could rise above the rim of the Earth. They were also in the higher reaches of the atmosphere, far too high for nature’s hand. They make little sense until one understands they are not natural. He felt around in his jacket pocket for his phone. It wasn 't like he had to use an app to recognize them. It could only tell him what the things he looked at were not. It also gave him a better idea of the location of the objects in the sky. He adjusted the settings on his smartphone. He selected a birds-eye view. …show more content…
Michael sat back down on the fold out chair he 'd brought with him, pondering what he witnessed He had no doubt this was an extraordinary event. At once beautiful to watch and terrifying in its possible implications. He had watched it several times over the past days and it only got more bizarre each time. He stretched and yawned. There was time for a coffee before he began analyzing the new data. He leaned forward in his chair. Something had moved in the bush covering the edge of the plateau where the ground fell away to the slope. A figure was making its way onto the peak. He had never known there a path emerged in that spot on the mountain. He stared in surprise as the old grizzled man came slowly toward him leaning a little on his long stick. The old man might as well have appeared when the magician pulled back the curtain. He gave Michael a wide smile displaying an almost full mouthful of white teeth. Judging from the deeply lined face and scrawny body man Michael guessed the man to be in his seventies, but his obvious vitality made it difficult to be certain of his age. The old man gestured to Michael without a word, then started back the way he came. Michael got up from his chair and followed behind. When he reached the edge of the plateau the old man was already disappearing into the scrub. He hurried after him, catching glimpses of the old man 's red and blacked checked cotton shirt between the branches of trees. The route down the slope
While walking nearly to the edge of the village I noticed something extraordinary, there was an astonishing man. He turned to face me, and started walking towards me. The man had some dissimilar characteristics. I felt as if I was going to be in jeopardy, I could not
Pikes Peak is a beautiful, rocky mountain with a fantastic view. The day my family and I were going to go up Pikes Peak the day was gorgeous. Heading up the mountain is so relaxing, having conversations with my family while looking out the tinted window. Looking out my window I could see columns and rows of the most perfect looking pine trees rising up the peak. During the climb it was so admirable and calm as I was thinking in my head, what a perfect day. The view was fantastic as I got to see the world breathing in all of the fresh air. Pikes Peak has three lakes which are very inviting with its clear blue water glistening from the sun. The lookout on the very tip of Pikes Peak was very foggy and chilly. The view was pretty cool since I’ve
“For the first time on the expedition the vista was primarily sky rather than earth. Herds of puffy cumulus raced beneath the sun, imprinting the landscape with a shifting matrix of shadow and blinding light.”
The painting by Albert Bierstadt “Rocky Mountain, Lander’s Peak” is truly magnificent. Its high horizon line portrays a wide, vast piece of land containing a Native American village besides a lake, sitting below the mountains in the background. The atmospheric perspective is present here with the mountains being painted lighter, and not as detailed, than the rest of the painting. There is a pretty prominent presence of a one point perspective, with the vanishing point being the light, oasis-looking, waterfall in the distance. The colors vibrancy are dependent on the clouds in the sky, being it is clearly not a bright and sunny day, giving a more realistic feel to the whole composition. The focus point, the waterfall, is painted with bright
“Michael, what in the heaven’s sakes are you still doing here?” called out the familiar voice.
Imagine standing and staring at giant Mountains that were touching clouds, reaching for the sun.And thinking
His face showed lines of worry, under the graying hair. Pa took a hard left, and the oxen took us to a large figure of what appeared to be a rock. I couldn’t tell at first from the murky overcast.
“He strayed away by himself from the watchers whom he had placed in ambush on the crest of the hill, and wandered far down the steep slopes amid the wild tangle of undergrowth, peering through the tree trunks and listening through the whistling and skirling of the wind and the restless beating of the
Critics say Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is “A beautiful book bound to become a classic.” Some may say the book seems like it is childish, but that’s not the case. The book actually has an average age rating of 12+. It has suspense, Chinese culture-based adventure, and interesting and original stories.
Tall spires stood black against the western sky like fingers reaching upward to caress the golden clouds, poised round the fading, crimson halo of the now-reposing sun like angels at the birthplace of the Christ. "Old Red Cloud's right," he said beneath his breath. "The Black Hills do go right up to the sky."
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I came to and looked around at the eerily familiar landscape, but something was missing. The house. It was gone. I slowly walked towards the plantation that I had visited so many times before, and as I grew closer and closer, I saw something peculiar. What was a rock doing in the middle of an empty field? The field was empty except for a single tree, which
“It was a fine day. In the west there was a massive stand of cumulus cloud so like a city seen
He stares pensively over the precipice and says: "Look at the stone, how it keeps going" (p. 158).
We began our journey to the top of the first revine of earth with tremendous