Mountains
After my recent Canada dream, I’ve been looking through all of my pictures of mountains from San Fransisco and Seattle. I have a few I took on the bus from Seattle to Tacoma of Mount Rainier and I have a few of San Fransisco that I retook as they were originally non digital photos (I used to be a manual camera purist. I still love you Pentax, really!)
Here are the ones from Seattle/Tacoma:
And here are the ones from San Fransisco. Now, when I went to San Fransisco I was almost dumbfounded with how you could just glance down any given street and see a mountain in the distance. (Palm trees are actually pretty fun too but that’s not part of this blog!) I always thought the film sets with mountains were cheesy and unrealistic, too, until I actually saw one in real life. It almost makes you question what is real…because from far away mountains look like they are part of some big movie.
Also, I should put a disclaimer that I’m not totally sure some of these are mountains…like by the Golden Gate Bridge…they might just be large hills (admit it, you now have that Hugh Grant starring film in your head too, dontcha? Dontcha! Yeah, sorry about that.) To a person from the flatlands of Chicago, though, these do just fine. Even NY had bigger hills people. First year in Chicago, I was like, “Where do kids go sledding around here?!”
San Fransisco:
(now playing: Soundtrack to the Proposition by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis)