Terri from Second Wind Leisure invites to illustrate our favorite song this week for Sunday Stills. I chose a song I loved as a child, Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Climb Every Mountain” from “The Sound of Music.”
Like my friend Kirstin said in WQWWC this week,
I love living in the PNW where we are surrounded by mountains, not just “hills” but gorgeous mountains.
Kirstin Troyer
My family moved to the Pacific Northwest, where I enjoyed Mt. Hood and Mt. St. Helens when I was fifteen. I moved from there to Colorado Springs, near Pikes Peak, then to California in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and finally to Prescott, AZ in the Sierra Prieta and Bradshaw Mountains.
For the last fifty years or so I have loved looking at mountains from a distance. I don’t hike or snowshoe. Mountains make beautiful scenery. I took this picture very close to my back yard in California. But the song I love asks us to climb, not one, but every mountain.
Climb every mountain
Search high and low
Follow every byway
Every path you know
Fortunately, now many paths through the mountains are flat, paved, and well maintained so that people of all ages and abilities can enjoy them safely.
You can guess, but there’s no guarantee that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
Till you find your dream
This tourist probably had second thoughts about hopping into that flooded stream. In 2016-2017 the Sierra Nevada Mountains enjoyed record rainfalls. The Kings River had calmed down by July when this was taken, but it was still quite dangerous.
A dream that will need
All the love you can give
Every day of your life
For as long as you live
What dreams are you chasing?
Ongoing
- August Story Chat “A Dress for a Princess” by Wendy Fletcher. Hosted by Cathy Cade on her blog, Writing Wrinkles
- 10 Month Analysis of Story Chat
- WQWWC #36 Writer’s Choice or Mountains Just use a quote.
- #PPAC #8 Link your post about public art to Cee’s or my post each week from Friday through Thursday. Even numbers indicate Cee’s week.
- Challenge Interview Series Do you know someone who hosts a challenge or enjoys participating in challenges? Please contact me for an interview.
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28 responses to “Sunday Stills: Favorite Song”
You sang “Climb Every Mountain” in the Hollywood bowl with thousands of people?????⁄!!!! I want to hear more about that some day. I just found this old post and am so glad I did. I absolutely love it.
I’m a bit dumbfound to think that I don’t know where tunnel rock is. It can’t be possible, but I can’t come up with it. Can you explain?
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In the audience, Monica, not on stage! I could clear an audience of 10,000 in record time if I was on stage singing. The experience was magical, though.
I sent you the link about Tunnel Rock in Sequoia National Park. Thanks again for reading and commenting. It means so much!
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I love this song, Marsha, and your pictures are wonderful.
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Thank you. My parents loved musicals, so we had all the LPs of all the great musicals of the 1950s – 1960s. So I grew into the sound of music.
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So did I and for the same reasons. My mom loved musicals.
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Great minds, great childhoods. 🙂
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That is a great song. I love the Sound of Music.
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It’s amazing how many people know it by heart. It was thrilling to sing with 10,000 others in Hollywood Bowl as the movie played on a huge screen. They gave us a package as we came in with banners to fly, then before the show, an emcee came in with instructions which words triggered boos, hisses or claps.
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How amazing – the first part! 🙂
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I have some amazing friends who planned some exciting excursions for us all.
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You are very fortunate.
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Gosh, Norah. That should be my word. You know Leanne does a word thing. Debbie Harris has her BOLD word of the year. Mine should be for a lifetime and it should be FORTUNATE.
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That’s a good choice, Marsha.
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You’re good with words. 🙂
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I’m not sure about that, but I try.
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Like you I love mountains but don’t climb them – unless there’s a cable car or chairlift! And I love the message in this song, although of course I’m now stuck with it in my head for the day (or perhaps until I read another Sunday Stills post 😆 )
Beautiful mountain photos to accompany the lyrics, and it’s fun that you were able to include our host Terri in one of them!
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Thanks, Sarah. I love cable cars, too. It’s a great song. I went with friends to the Hollywood Bowl attending a singalong with Sound of Music. It was great fun.
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Ooh yes, that sounds like fun – although as I’m a terrible singer it might not be so much fun for the people around me if I went!
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You’re outside with 10,000 people around you. You can’t hear any individuals.
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This was a great response to Terri’s Sunday Stills prompt Marsha, and I can’t believe you both mentioned the same song!
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Isn’t that funny? We didn’t say a word about it beforehand.
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Oh my goodness! I was so happy to read this post, Marsha! I see we love our show-tunes! Best song ever for continuing inspiration! I shared on my FB page I would climb every mountain with you! Your first image of the Sierras with the song reminds me of that opening shot of Maria singing that the hills are alive! Looks just like it–awesome job capturing that!
BTW, was that really my hair in the snap of me? What a fun day that was when we explored Sequoia! I am impressed that each of your moves was to the mountains, that’s amazing. Just being surrounded by them and even from a distance brings out the “John Muir” in us for thinking of inspirational quotes…or at least creating momentous images! I can’t wait to see you in just a few days, my friend!
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Aaaah, The hills are alive……
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Yes they are, I hear them singing from here. 🙂
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😊😊
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This is such a cool post to go along with Terri’s topic. Wonderful 😀
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It was funny that Terri used that song as her quote on my post. I wrote mine several days ago and waited until hers came out to link. Just very connected, I think. 🙂
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