Sometimes I feel an overwhelming silence envelope me. And my love of words is no less. They just aren’t needed for the moment. I just have a need to tumble, flow and cascade through the moments.
Tumble
Flow
Cascade
As if I was back on that glorious mountain.
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Croagh Patrick
Cruach Phadraig
I took these pictures upon this mountain and brought them back with me.
And left a little of my soul always there to be.
And beautiful they are ~ I so loved how you wrote this Colleen. Oh to return there one day.
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Thanks Jen. It just popped out of my head while I was riding this morning. I was feeling very ‘quiet’. And there I was. Back on that beautiful mountain.
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🙂 and that’s how beautiful words are formed 🙂 x
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🙂 Thanks Jen! I think many of us have experienced this. 🙂
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I can understand your feelings, Colleen, for such a wonderful place can only add to your need for silence, I was silent, in response to the photo’s, a simply beautiful posting, food for the soul. xPenx
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Thank you xPenx. It felt good to be ‘there’. Quiet just feels good, and right, and more so in a place like this.
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Do you think that parts of many ancestral souls also remain there?
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I absolutely do.
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I’ve done a fair amount of hiking and this is my favorite by far.
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🙂 Mine too.
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Beautiful photos, Colleen. And your whole post somehow brings my mind to a book I read as a kid, “My Side of the Mountain.” Good morning!
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I looked this book up Mark after reading your comment. And I either read the book or a condensed version of it. It’s kind of foggy but I definitely remember the living in a tree part.
And now it’s good evening. Thank you! 🙂
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We miss you Colleen . When are you Coming back?
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As soon as I can get there!
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I understand you. Beautiful photos, worth to see for real. Look so peaceful.
Irene
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Thank you Irene. It was a stunning place. And we literally had the mountain to ourselves.
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I walk with my dog in a valley every morning, when it is possible and not too bad weather with rain. Then I will have to swim there instead 🙂
We walk and play there around one hour daily and I enjoy so much to have the valley mostly only for us, so I do understand you Colleen.
Irene
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😀 Ah….yes, it seems you do. I love (and may be a little jealous! 😉 ) that you have such a place to be every day!!!
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That’s beautiful, Colleen. Words and photos.
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🙂 Thank you Paulette!
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There are places in the world that I believe are our true homes. You don’t even know it until you get there. Wyoming is that place for me.
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I agree with that completely! 🙂 I knew it with my first breath there.
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Nothing like the mountains! Love the pics.
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Thanks Huck. This mountain is breath taking for sure.
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Simply beautiful
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🙂 Thank you!
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Ah Croagh Patrick. Did you do it in your bare feet? I’ve never done it as I love solitude when I am hill walking. It’s meant to be a tough climb.
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😉 We did not do it in our bare feet. I will say it is one of the highlights of my life. It was stunning. And we probably picked the only day in the past twenty years where we had the entire mountain to ourselves. There was NO one else on it until we came back down and another couple was heading up. Tric it was amazing.
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Mmmm. Maybe I’ll think about it so. What month did you do it?
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NOVEMBER! 🙂 It was foggy. Wet. But perfect for us. 🙂
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That is so beautiful. One more reason added to my list of why to visit Ireland. I sometimes find myself overwhelmed with so many words, that I can’t get anything out at all.
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I do get words backed up and tumbling in my head. I usually get them out, then never do anything with them because they are so not what I want. I save about every word I ever write. Often coming back and reading, and something makes sense of it.
I tell anyone who wants to go to Ireland, do it, you will never be sorry you did. 🙂 I hope you go!
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Absolutely glorious both pictures and words. 🙂 🙂
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Thank you Tess, I would have had to put my thumb over the lens to get a bad picture!
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Not me. I can’t setup a shot if I were bribed.. 😀
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Hhehehehehehehehe! I bet we see some fascinating ones from you in the near future.
I hope!
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Hope is g.o.o.d. 😀
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Your thoughts are well expressed…and depicted. And I, too, shared similar feelings viewing nature in Japan. Where were these taken? Ireland?
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Thank you Koji. These were taken in Ireland. On our climb of Croagh Patrick. It was amazing. Just David and I on the entire mountain. Imagining all of the thousands and thousands who have climbed it since St. Patrick himself. I am sure we can share our feelings for Japan and Ireland with one another, and understand the passion.
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Colleen, Your pictures are a guide to your heart and soul. The fact you were on the mountain, the fact that you took the pictures and the most important fact you shared them and your thoughts. Thank you, Bill
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Bill thank you so much! I can’t look at these pictures without pulling forward the feelings from when I was there. 🙂
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