Abracadabra!

How does a mountain, a seemingly permanent feature of the landscape, disappear? Completely disappear so that you wonder if you've been imagining it all those days of gazing, wondering, comparing?
Yet, having been concealed so effectively, the mystical swathes of low cloud and mists slowly thin until, huzzah! There, like a coin pulled out from behind a small boy's ear, you see, it never really went away...