Monday Mountains

As you know, I've been filling in for Mike's Thursday Trees feature while he's hors de combat with computer issues. In times like these, when there is so much ugliness and negativity swirling around us, it's important to have some bits of beauty to help keep us calm and focused amid the social, political, and religious turmoil.

Trees do that, but I also love mountain scenery (which, of course, often comes with trees, at least below the timber line). And so, I've decided to start a new recurring feature I'm calling Monday Mountains - a dose of natural beauty and calm to help start off your week. Here's my first selection of alpine scenery ...

#1 - The Berner Oberland, Switzerland

#2 - French Alps

#3 - Gosausee in Austria (I took this picture)

#4 - The Bavarian Alps, with the famous castles of Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau 

#5 - The Peruvian Andes

#6 - Rakaposhi, Pakistan

#7 - In the Superstition Mountains, Arizona

#8 - The Italian Dolomites

#9 - The Matterhorn, on the border between Switzerland and Italy

#10 - Torres de Paine Park, Chile

And that's it for our inaugural edition of Monday Mountains ... I hope it helped you get calm and centered as you step gingerly into the new week.

Have a good day, and keep coming back for more thoughts.

Bilbo