Mountain Haiku

pounding drums
echo down the valley
birds calm



deep breath
fog dissipates
common peril



fog follows
will it catch us
before the pass







cow grazes
on the high trail
dispiriting



glaciers glow
in sunrise orange
forge iron, not







on the ridge
falls can be lethal
worth it



DAILY PHOTO: Sunset over the Chobe River

Taken in April of 2017 in Chobe National Park (i.e. taken from Botswana looking into Namibia)

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain & Lake in Kashmir

Taken in August of 2016 on the trail from Naranag to Sonamarg

DAILY PHOTO: Chocolate Hills of Bohol

Taken in December of 2017 on Bohol Island

 

It wasn’t dry enough to see them in their full chocolatey brown glory, but these conical limestone hills are pretty wild nevertheless.

DAILY PHOTO: Siquijor Sunset

Taken in December of 2017 on Siquijor in the Philippines

DAILY PHOTO: Young Tusker in the Marsh

Taken in May of 2017 at Amboseli National Park in Kenya

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Streams

Taken in June of 2015 in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh

DAILY PHOTO: Snowcaps of Salkantay

Taken in July of 2010 in the Peruvian Andes

 

DAILY PHOTO: Rooster Under Blue Sky

Taken in April of 2017 in Khonoma, Nagaland

DAILY PHOTO: Landscapes of Ladakh

Taken in August of 2016 on the Srinagar-Leh Highway in Ladakh

 

The ubiquitous Buddhist Monastery (Lamayuru, I believe)

 

Green oases line the valleys among otherwise desolate landscapes.