The wandering recluse is simply an echo of mountaintop moonlight coming and going night after night.

Straw sandals wet with the dew of grasses,
a recluse wanders.  Never coming to rest,
he's simply an echo of mountaintop moon-
light coming and going night after night.

Su Tung-p'o
11th century China

Photo: The moon rises by a rock formation at the edge of Hewlett Burn; Poudre Canyon, CO; January 21, 2013