Who has not felt the urge to throw some tea and bread in an old sack and jump over the back fence?

"Who has not felt the urge to throw some tea and bread in an old sack and jump over the back fence? . . .

"Who wouldn't be a mountaineer? Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing."

The Contemplative John Muir

Photos: (Top) Bellvue Dome and Watson Lake at sunset, Bellvue, CO, October 28, 2014; (Middle) Cottonwoods, farm trucks, and Greyrock, Bellvue, CO, October 28, 2014; (Bottom) Hallett Peak from Nymph Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, October 27, 2014. All three of these scenes are near my home.