It takes a mighty big sky to frame masterpieces like these

Excerpt from “Sunset at Bear Camp”

John Greenleaf Whittier

Photo courtesy of gmark1

Touched by a light that hath no name,

A glory never sung,

Photo courtesy of Merritt Stites

Aloft on sky and mountain wall

Are God's great pictures hung.

Photo courtesy of Trevor Manternach

How changed the summits vast and old!

No longer granite-browed,

Photo courtesy of jdwheaton 

They melt in rosy mist; the rock

Is softer than the cloud…

Image courtesy of Milano Liberi

What unseen altar crowns the hills

That reach up stair on stair?

Photo courtesy of Isolino

What eyes look through, what white wings fan

These purple veils of air?

Photo courtesy of richdrogpa

What Presence from the heavenly heights

To those of earth stoops down?

Image courtesy of Milano Liberi

Not vainly Hellas dreamed of gods

On Ida's snowy crown!

Photo courtesy of theilr

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Photo sent to us by Milano Liberi

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Photo sent to us by Barbara - along with this comment: Hi MY-WEST.COM .... I looked at your amazing cloud photos, and here is mine ... taken (not in the wild west) but in South Africa one summer night!

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Photo sent to us by RJ Burns