Last day of 2015

The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
--Li Po (701-762 CE), translated by Sam Hamill.

Light on Mt. Hood turns pink, the last sunset of 2015. Beneath the mountain, all this activity dissolves into nothing. 

I'm playing this over and over, with such appreciation. She's 73 years old and she's still rocking it!