Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Monday, September 29, 2014

Where we find the Sea


Consider this: I live within the landlocked shadows of Montana’s Big Belt Mountains, and yet the tallest mountain near me, Hogback, standing 7813 feet above present sea level, is topped with limestone and seashell fossils from an ancient ocean floor.
Consider this: the highest point on planet Earth, the very peak of Mount Everest, is neither volcanic nor metamorphic stone.  Standing amid the clouds at 29,000 feet above present sea level, the peak is comprised of marine limestone thrust up from the ancient sea where it first formed.
We are often upside-down in this life.
In our mountain ranges, the sea is locked in windswept stone above us.
--Mitchell Hegman

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