The mountains call to us: "Come up higher!"

"You climb in a kind of natural ecstasy as if lifted by the very spirit of the mountains, which seems ever to call, 'Come up higher!' . . . This is true transportation."

The Contemplative John Muir, p. 44

Photo: Marsh-Marigold flowers blooming on the bank of Finch Lake, Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; June 1, 2012