Astronomy Photo: Dumbbell Nebula

photo challenge day 27: surprise

“You could have a small fire at night. Maybe find a cave. A mountain stream. I’d have a canteen for water for when the time came that I was too weak to move about. After a while the water would taste extraordinary. It would taste like music. I’d wrap myself in the blanket at night against the cold and watch the bones take shape beneath my skin and I would pray that I might see the truth of the world before I died. Sometimes at night the animals would come to the edge of the fire and move about and their shadows would move among the trees and I would understand that when the last fire was ashes they would come and carry me away and I would be their eucharist. And that would be my life. And I would be happy.”

-from Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

Finished reading: Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy 📚

photo challenge day 26: critter

photo challenge day 25: spine

photo challenge day 24: light

Finished reading: The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy 📚

photo challenge day 23: dreamy

Photo challenge day 22: blue

Photo challenge day 21: mountain

Photo challenge day 20: ice

When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

• from Annals of the Fomer World by John McFee

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photo challenge day 18: birthday

photo challenge day 18: mood

photo challenge day 17: transcendence

Finished reading: Village in the Sky by Jack McDevitt 📚

photo challenge day 16: flâneur

Photo challenge day 15: small

Finished reading: Exhalation by Ted Chiang 📚