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Mountain daisies

 

A mountain is an endless banquet of glories great and small.  Cliffs and peaks and vistas make the observer feel exalted but insignificant, temporary in an ageless space.  But mountains also contain miniature works of exquisite ephemeral art.  This clump of mountain daisies is barely larger than my hands.  It blooms between snows and snows, a space of only a few weeks.

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