A Beautiful Hike

 

Tim and I started our hike toward Mission Peak around noon. The first weekend 
of MP re-opening, traffic on the Ohlone side was much eased. It was a cool and
windy Saturday. A few lazy fluffy clouds hang from an azure sky. Early summer,
the hills have hastily changed into a bright golden coat. Against a blue canvas,
they looked majestic.
        

The grass was tall, yellow, and thick. It reminded me of Laura Ingalls's
prairie. Aside from the tornados and wild fires, I wouldn't mind living in a
little cabin there, I told Tim, who promptly pointed out that I forgot the wifi.

To the east and all the way to Livermore, lay a vast wilderness. The undulating
terrain looked desolate, darker, and less cheerful, as if harboring some deep
ancient secret. To the north we could see Mount Diablo beyond Danville, almost
double in height than that of MP, thrusting toward the sky. The East Bay is huge.

        
Close to the foot of the summit, colorful hang-gliders came quietly into view,
like big kites floating above. Some flew low enough that I could see the pilots.
With their arms stretched out in the front and legs together straight behind,
they glided as if in a medium thicker and more bouyant than thin air. Others
hovered much higher and farther away and looked more like giant birds hunting
for prey. They invoked black memories, acquired from fiction, of the unfortunate
boy Icarus.  Strangely, that made them more free and beautiful in the mind of
this beholder.

[7grizzly]

回复 'GraceX' 的评论 : Thank you, Grace, for reading! It's has been a while. Hope everything's going well for you.

[GraceX]

7grizzly好，好熟悉的景色啊，越看越喜欢，谢谢分享美图，我好久没有去那里了：）

[7grizzly]

回复 '暖冬cool夏' 的评论 : Thank you very much, 暖冬, for reading and catching the error. This kind of slip never stopped amazing me. Much appreciated!

Yes. It was Tim, having a hard time coming downhill. He looks all right. His weight is mostly invisible :-)

[暖冬cool夏]

I like this short but descriptive writing a lot (I am reading a translated novel The Kill, which abounds in scenery descriptions). Most importantly, you attached three pictures this time. The first picture rouses in me a nostalgic memory, as it is so akin to a hike that we used to frequent, except it is wider and the grass thicker:) Is that Tim? If so, he must have lost weight:))
"lied a vast wilderness"-- should it be "lay"? I am not very sure though.