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 📚

Photo challenge day 14: cactus

photo challenge day 13: page

photo challenge day 12: magic

photo challenge day 11: sky

Photo challenge day 10: train

Finished reading: Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚

Photo challenge day 7: well-being

Photo challenge day 6: windy

Photo challenge day 5: serene

Photo challenge day 4: foliage