OBSERVATIONS By: Nathan Lowe

Written: November 11th, 2008

Well the turkey has been cooked, carved, portioned out and eaten. The bones have been given to the stray cats in the neighborhood and the nieces and nephews are finally getting tucked into bed.

I had to run to Santaquin about dusk to get a couple movies from the movie store and I was struck by the intangible look of the mountains as I came into town. The tops were covered with gray heavy looking clouds. The clouds looked so heavy it was as if the mountains were groaning under the weight. But that was not the striking part of what I saw as I crested the hill driving past Genola. What was so striking was that the mountains looked as if they were part of the clouds. They were darker, a sort of charcoal color but they did not look solid. More like a cloud that had been forced to stay in a certain shape, There were no defined edges and they seemed to sit just behind the horizon as opposed to coming all the way down and joining with the ground.

I am reminded of a few nights when I have been on my way home from the video store and the darkness seemed tangible. Not like it was an absence of light but a sponge sucking all of the light into the darkness. Like looking through a glass of water filled with black fluid. Often darkness is clear or it will sharpen the look of the night sky but on these nights all light seemed to be simply muffled. My headlights did not reveal any hint of mist or fog but the darkness just seemed to swallow up the light that came from the headlights. The rays did not seem to penetrate as far as usual and there was a sense of foreboding. Nothing happened on those nights and I arrived home without incident. It was just an odd sensation to be left with.

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Based on a work at nathan-lowe.blogspot.com.