1 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:13,062 Welcome to Sleepscapes by Travelscapes. 2 00:00:13,062 --> 00:00:17,500 Tonight, a remembered journey takes us into the high country of Mauna Kea, 3 00:00:17,500 --> 00:00:20,775 on the island of Hawaiʻi, and gently home again. 4 00:00:20,775 --> 00:00:24,200 The original photographs hold the daylight views along the way. 5 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,750 We will begin with the road and the clear sky, then let the details 6 00:00:27,750 --> 00:00:30,688 become quieter as the story goes on. 7 00:00:30,688 --> 00:00:32,875 You are a passenger in this journey. 8 00:00:32,875 --> 00:00:37,225 The seat beside the window is yours, and the day has already made room 9 00:00:37,225 --> 00:00:39,488 for a little time on the mountain. 10 00:00:39,850 --> 00:00:43,638 There is a folded sweater within reach, a bottle of water resting in 11 00:00:43,638 --> 00:00:47,712 its place, and the familiar low sound of the vehicle around you. 12 00:00:47,712 --> 00:00:50,625 Ahead, the road lies against a brown slope. 13 00:00:50,625 --> 00:00:54,738 Its curve is visible for a while, then disappears behind a rise. 14 00:00:54,738 --> 00:00:58,050 Beyond the rise, another part of the road comes into view. 15 00:00:58,050 --> 00:01:01,800 The mountain gives the journey its shape, one bend at a time. 16 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,700 From this window, the nearest ground is textured with stones. 17 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:10,012 Farther out, the texture becomes a broad surface of warm brown and 18 00:01:10,012 --> 00:01:11,038 gray. 19 00:01:11,425 --> 00:01:15,825 Still farther away, the cloud layer forms a pale edge beneath the blue. 20 00:01:15,825 --> 00:01:19,300 The eye moves from one distance to the next without needing to choose 21 00:01:19,300 --> 00:01:20,438 between them. 22 00:01:20,438 --> 00:01:25,050 A small piece of road, a wide stretch of land, a sky that continues 23 00:01:25,050 --> 00:01:26,338 beyond the window. 24 00:01:26,338 --> 00:01:29,450 In the photographs, the daylight remains clear. 25 00:01:29,450 --> 00:01:33,525 As the story continues, the screen will gradually grow dimmer. 26 00:01:33,525 --> 00:01:37,350 The voice will become a little slower and softer, while remaining clear 27 00:01:37,350 --> 00:01:38,738 enough to follow. 28 00:01:38,738 --> 00:01:41,362 The journey belongs to memory now. 29 00:01:41,725 --> 00:01:45,475 It can be followed slowly, with no turn you have to prepare for, and 30 00:01:45,475 --> 00:01:47,800 no arrival you have to arrange. 31 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,850 The road keeps its place along the side of the mountain. 32 00:01:50,850 --> 00:01:54,250 You settle a little more comfortably against the seat, and watch the 33 00:01:54,250 --> 00:01:56,663 near slope pass into the distance. 34 00:01:56,663 --> 00:02:00,450 A faint reflection sits in the window, close enough to belong to the 35 00:02:00,450 --> 00:02:02,600 cabin rather than the mountain. 36 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,875 When you look past it, the road is clear again. 37 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:09,462 You rest your hand on the sweater and turn your attention toward the 38 00:02:09,462 --> 00:02:10,462 view. 39 00:02:10,825 --> 00:02:15,588 The simple things within reach make the unfamiliar landscape comfortable 40 00:02:15,588 --> 00:02:16,888 to watch. 41 00:02:16,888 --> 00:02:21,525 A place beside the glass, the steady movement of the vehicle, and the 42 00:02:21,525 --> 00:02:24,100 shape of the next rise ahead. 43 00:02:39,396 --> 00:02:43,146 At first, it is the color of the ground that holds your attention. 44 00:02:43,146 --> 00:02:46,883 The island's high country has its own palette, separate from the green 45 00:02:46,883 --> 00:02:50,333 slopes and bright shoreline that might have filled the morning. 46 00:02:50,333 --> 00:02:54,133 Here, brown earth turns toward red where the light reaches it. 47 00:02:54,133 --> 00:02:57,221 A shaded face becomes cooler and grayer. 48 00:02:57,221 --> 00:03:01,583 Stones gather at the base of a rise, and the road cuts a smooth line 49 00:03:01,583 --> 00:03:03,508 through their rougher surface. 50 00:03:03,508 --> 00:03:08,383 Looking out, you notice how much a single bend can change the view. 51 00:03:08,746 --> 00:03:12,571 The shoulder of a hill comes close to the window and briefly fills it. 52 00:03:12,571 --> 00:03:15,933 Then the vehicle turns, and the distance opens again. 53 00:03:15,933 --> 00:03:18,196 Clouds lie beyond the next ridge. 54 00:03:18,196 --> 00:03:21,633 Their pale shapes make the ground seem darker, though the light itself 55 00:03:21,633 --> 00:03:22,971 has not changed. 56 00:03:22,971 --> 00:03:25,521 You follow the edge of the ridge with your eyes. 57 00:03:25,521 --> 00:03:28,846 It climbs gently, settles, and climbs once more. 58 00:03:28,846 --> 00:03:32,296 The line is neither perfectly regular nor difficult to follow. 59 00:03:32,296 --> 00:03:35,983 It has the familiar unevenness of land seen at a distance. 60 00:03:35,983 --> 00:03:39,733 Nearer the road, one stone casts a short shadow. 61 00:03:40,121 --> 00:03:42,671 Another lies half buried in the surface. 62 00:03:42,671 --> 00:03:46,458 You can see them for a moment, then they pass out of the window's frame. 63 00:03:46,458 --> 00:03:49,696 Farther away, the mountain holds its shape much longer. 64 00:03:49,696 --> 00:03:54,421 The near details move past, while the distant outline seems almost still. 65 00:03:54,421 --> 00:03:57,558 Inside the vehicle, the sounds remain small. 66 00:03:57,558 --> 00:04:01,346 A steady note from the engine, the light movement of something secured 67 00:04:01,346 --> 00:04:07,096 behind the seat, a quiet change as the surface beneath the tires changes. 68 00:04:07,096 --> 00:04:09,908 There is no conversation to keep up with. 69 00:04:10,271 --> 00:04:13,796 Occasionally, your attention returns to the soft fold of the sweater 70 00:04:13,796 --> 00:04:14,946 beside you. 71 00:04:14,946 --> 00:04:17,046 Then it moves back to the window. 72 00:04:17,046 --> 00:04:20,721 The road continues between the slopes, and each turn brings another 73 00:04:20,721 --> 00:04:23,246 simple arrangement of ground and sky. 74 00:04:23,246 --> 00:04:27,133 The road passes a place where the surface has several shades at once. 75 00:04:27,133 --> 00:04:31,596 A warmer patch beside a cooler one, a pale stone in darker ground. 76 00:04:31,596 --> 00:04:35,421 From this angle, the mountain is not one color after all. 77 00:04:35,421 --> 00:04:39,508 It has small variations that become visible only when the view stays 78 00:04:39,508 --> 00:04:41,133 close for a moment. 79 00:04:41,521 --> 00:04:46,171 You watch them pass, then let your eyes return to the wider ridge, 80 00:04:46,171 --> 00:04:49,471 where the separate colors come gently together. 81 00:05:05,289 --> 00:05:08,989 The pale observatory buildings become easier to see as the road brings 82 00:05:08,989 --> 00:05:10,151 them nearer. 83 00:05:10,151 --> 00:05:15,064 In one photograph, they stand across a ridge, separated by open ground. 84 00:05:15,064 --> 00:05:16,751 Some are rounded domes. 85 00:05:16,751 --> 00:05:19,714 Others have straighter sides and darker sections. 86 00:05:19,714 --> 00:05:23,339 The buildings are distinct, but the mountain around them remains larger 87 00:05:23,339 --> 00:05:24,876 than all of them together. 88 00:05:24,876 --> 00:05:27,739 A road connects one part of the ridge to another. 89 00:05:27,739 --> 00:05:30,901 From a distance, it is a narrow gray line. 90 00:05:30,901 --> 00:05:35,576 Close to the window, it has an edge, a surface, and a small curve that 91 00:05:35,576 --> 00:05:37,251 follows the land. 92 00:05:37,639 --> 00:05:41,001 You find yourself looking at the spaces between the buildings. 93 00:05:41,001 --> 00:05:42,976 A stretch of brown ground. 94 00:05:42,976 --> 00:05:44,264 A low rise. 95 00:05:44,264 --> 00:05:46,489 A piece of sky resting above it. 96 00:05:46,489 --> 00:05:49,264 Those spaces make the scene feel unhurried. 97 00:05:49,264 --> 00:05:54,214 The observatories are places of work, but our quiet view stays outside them. 98 00:05:54,214 --> 00:05:58,151 We can appreciate the shape of a dome catching daylight without entering 99 00:05:58,151 --> 00:06:02,301 the building, or imagining the work of a particular instrument. 100 00:06:02,301 --> 00:06:06,414 The photograph brings one pale structure close enough for its curve 101 00:06:06,414 --> 00:06:07,801 to be clear. 102 00:06:08,189 --> 00:06:11,339 Beneath it, the darker slope turns away from the light. 103 00:06:11,339 --> 00:06:14,364 Behind it, the clouds are small and distant. 104 00:06:14,364 --> 00:06:18,026 You look from the building to the cloud line, then back to the road. 105 00:06:18,026 --> 00:06:21,651 A vehicle window gives each part of the landscape its turn. 106 00:06:21,651 --> 00:06:25,764 A building comes into the frame, remains there for a while, then moves 107 00:06:25,764 --> 00:06:27,176 toward the edge. 108 00:06:27,176 --> 00:06:28,764 The sky stays. 109 00:06:28,764 --> 00:06:30,639 The broad ridge stays. 110 00:06:30,639 --> 00:06:34,101 You begin to feel how much of this journey is simply a change in the 111 00:06:34,101 --> 00:06:37,026 angle from which the mountain is seen. 112 00:06:37,389 --> 00:06:41,589 The same land can offer a different view after only a short distance. 113 00:06:41,589 --> 00:06:47,026 With each bend, a familiar shape becomes slightly new, and then familiar again. 114 00:06:47,026 --> 00:06:50,989 A small shadow runs beneath the nearest building, keeping its bright 115 00:06:50,989 --> 00:06:52,989 wall separate from the ground. 116 00:06:52,989 --> 00:06:56,039 Around it, the land has no straight boundary. 117 00:06:56,039 --> 00:07:00,801 Its uneven surface continues across the ridge and down the slope. 118 00:07:00,801 --> 00:07:05,014 The building makes a useful point of reference, but the view soon carries 119 00:07:05,014 --> 00:07:07,426 your attention farther away. 120 00:07:07,814 --> 00:07:12,001 You notice the clouds again, and the space above them. 121 00:07:12,001 --> 00:07:16,414 The rounded dome remains in the photograph, with the mountain spread 122 00:07:16,414 --> 00:07:17,639 around it. 123 00:07:34,004 --> 00:07:36,954 For a little while, the journey pauses in memory. 124 00:07:36,954 --> 00:07:40,341 You picture a place beside the road where the view was held long enough 125 00:07:40,341 --> 00:07:42,154 to become a photograph. 126 00:07:42,154 --> 00:07:43,729 The vehicle is still. 127 00:07:43,729 --> 00:07:47,591 The engine's steady note falls away, and the landscape has time to 128 00:07:47,591 --> 00:07:49,516 show its smaller details. 129 00:07:49,516 --> 00:07:51,779 A pale building on the next rise. 130 00:07:51,779 --> 00:07:53,841 The thin road across the ground. 131 00:07:53,841 --> 00:07:58,191 A darker patch of stone on a slope that otherwise seems smooth. 132 00:07:58,191 --> 00:08:02,704 In the foreground, the surface is made of many pieces, each catching 133 00:08:02,704 --> 00:08:04,841 the light in its own way. 134 00:08:05,229 --> 00:08:09,254 From farther back, those pieces combine into a single texture. 135 00:08:09,254 --> 00:08:12,391 You can look closely, or let them remain together. 136 00:08:12,391 --> 00:08:16,554 Beyond the nearest ridge, the cloud layer stretches across the view. 137 00:08:16,554 --> 00:08:19,229 It does not have a hard edge like the road. 138 00:08:19,229 --> 00:08:23,704 Its boundary is softer, becoming less distinct where one pale part 139 00:08:23,704 --> 00:08:24,941 meets another. 140 00:08:24,941 --> 00:08:27,191 The eye rests there for a moment. 141 00:08:27,191 --> 00:08:31,079 Then it returns to the nearer ground, where the shadows have clear 142 00:08:31,079 --> 00:08:32,216 shapes. 143 00:08:32,604 --> 00:08:36,504 These are the ordinary differences that give a landscape its depth: 144 00:08:36,504 --> 00:08:41,166 near stone and distant cloud, a bright surface and its shaded side, 145 00:08:41,166 --> 00:08:45,254 a line that can be followed and another that gradually disappears. 146 00:08:45,254 --> 00:08:49,779 Somewhere behind the seat, a small object settles with a faint sound. 147 00:08:49,779 --> 00:08:53,941 The cabin is familiar, even in a place that looks unlike the low country 148 00:08:53,941 --> 00:08:55,154 of the island. 149 00:08:55,154 --> 00:08:57,941 The folded sweater is still beside you. 150 00:08:57,941 --> 00:09:00,404 The window frame is still close. 151 00:09:00,404 --> 00:09:03,416 You have a comfortable place from which to look. 152 00:09:03,779 --> 00:09:07,704 The remembered pause lasts a little longer, then the engine returns 153 00:09:07,704 --> 00:09:09,329 to its quiet rhythm. 154 00:09:09,329 --> 00:09:12,604 The view begins to move again, slowly at first. 155 00:09:12,604 --> 00:09:16,929 The nearest stones leave the frame, and the ridge takes their place. 156 00:09:16,929 --> 00:09:20,204 The camera once held this arrangement of light for a fraction of a 157 00:09:20,204 --> 00:09:21,216 second. 158 00:09:21,216 --> 00:09:26,129 Now the photograph can give that same arrangement as much time as we want. 159 00:09:26,129 --> 00:09:30,629 The pause is different from the brief moment in which the picture was made. 160 00:09:30,629 --> 00:09:33,541 It belongs to the person looking at it. 161 00:09:33,929 --> 00:09:39,016 We can stay with a small curve of road, or with the nearest shadow, 162 00:09:39,016 --> 00:09:43,604 long after the vehicle in the remembered journey has moved on. 163 00:10:00,516 --> 00:10:05,241 Mauna Kea is a volcanic mountain, and its broad slopes contain a history 164 00:10:05,241 --> 00:10:07,629 far older than this day's journey. 165 00:10:07,629 --> 00:10:11,779 Later eruptions added cinder cones and rugged surfaces to the mountain's 166 00:10:11,779 --> 00:10:13,216 earlier form. 167 00:10:13,216 --> 00:10:17,341 That history is part of the irregular outline we see, though each particular 168 00:10:17,341 --> 00:10:21,179 stone keeps its own details beyond a passing glance. 169 00:10:21,179 --> 00:10:26,379 In this view, geology becomes shape and texture: a rounded cone, a 170 00:10:26,379 --> 00:10:31,079 rough field of rock, a ridge that lifts behind another ridge. 171 00:10:31,466 --> 00:10:34,766 You let the information settle into the landscape rather than trying 172 00:10:34,766 --> 00:10:36,516 to carry it separately. 173 00:10:36,516 --> 00:10:40,666 The cone in the photograph has one side warmed by the light and another 174 00:10:40,666 --> 00:10:42,716 side turned into shade. 175 00:10:42,716 --> 00:10:44,504 The change is gradual. 176 00:10:44,504 --> 00:10:48,004 Near its crest, the surface is a simple brown. 177 00:10:48,004 --> 00:10:53,354 Lower down, small differences become visible, then disappear into distance. 178 00:10:53,354 --> 00:10:55,391 The road runs nearby. 179 00:10:55,391 --> 00:10:59,841 It is a human line through a landscape that was not arranged around it. 180 00:10:59,841 --> 00:11:02,704 Sometimes it takes a broad bend. 181 00:11:03,116 --> 00:11:07,441 Sometimes it slips behind a rise and leaves only the land in view. 182 00:11:07,441 --> 00:11:10,541 From the passenger seat, you follow it without effort. 183 00:11:10,541 --> 00:11:14,154 The driver attends to the road, while your attention can drift toward 184 00:11:14,154 --> 00:11:15,379 the horizon. 185 00:11:15,379 --> 00:11:17,929 A cloud line lies beyond the cone. 186 00:11:17,929 --> 00:11:21,766 Farther away, a broad mountain form appears in the distance. 187 00:11:21,766 --> 00:11:25,754 The foreground, the clouds, and that farther shape make a series of 188 00:11:25,754 --> 00:11:27,141 gentle layers. 189 00:11:27,141 --> 00:11:30,541 You look at the nearest layer first, then the next. 190 00:11:30,541 --> 00:11:35,079 There is time to notice how different the colors become as they recede. 191 00:11:35,466 --> 00:11:37,379 A warm brown close by. 192 00:11:37,379 --> 00:11:39,179 A cooler distant slope. 193 00:11:39,179 --> 00:11:40,529 White along the clouds. 194 00:11:40,529 --> 00:11:41,991 Blue above all of it. 195 00:11:41,991 --> 00:11:45,791 When the road turns, the layers move slightly against one another, 196 00:11:45,791 --> 00:11:48,591 and a little more of the distance becomes visible. 197 00:11:48,591 --> 00:11:52,654 The nearest cone has a broad shoulder, rather than the sharp outline 198 00:11:52,654 --> 00:11:54,954 a drawing of a mountain might give it. 199 00:11:54,954 --> 00:11:59,254 Looking along that shoulder, you notice how the slope changes direction 200 00:11:59,254 --> 00:12:00,329 gradually. 201 00:12:00,329 --> 00:12:03,091 A little rise hides part of the road. 202 00:12:03,091 --> 00:12:05,704 Another lets the next bend appear. 203 00:12:06,091 --> 00:12:10,154 The land gives us only a section of the route at a time. 204 00:12:10,154 --> 00:12:14,791 That is all the passenger needs: a view through the window, with the 205 00:12:14,791 --> 00:12:17,841 next curve quietly taking shape. 206 00:12:35,251 --> 00:12:38,963 There is another part of the mountain's history that belongs to a colder 207 00:12:38,963 --> 00:12:39,976 time. 208 00:12:39,976 --> 00:12:44,401 Geological evidence shows that ice once covered parts of Mauna Kea's 209 00:12:44,401 --> 00:12:45,663 high country. 210 00:12:45,663 --> 00:12:50,063 Tonight, we do not have to turn that history into an imagined storm, 211 00:12:50,063 --> 00:12:52,976 or change the clear day in the photographs. 212 00:12:52,976 --> 00:12:57,013 It can remain a quiet thought behind the dry ground: the mountain has 213 00:12:57,013 --> 00:13:01,101 known conditions very different from those seen in this frame. 214 00:13:01,101 --> 00:13:03,738 The stones before us are real. 215 00:13:03,738 --> 00:13:06,313 The brown slopes are real. 216 00:13:06,701 --> 00:13:10,538 The blue daylight is the light in which the camera made this view. 217 00:13:10,538 --> 00:13:14,426 A long history can rest behind an ordinary moment without making that 218 00:13:14,426 --> 00:13:16,051 moment less peaceful. 219 00:13:16,051 --> 00:13:19,001 You watch a patch of ground pass beside the window. 220 00:13:19,001 --> 00:13:21,338 Some pieces are dark and angular. 221 00:13:21,338 --> 00:13:24,438 Others are smaller, lighter, and closer together. 222 00:13:24,438 --> 00:13:28,326 In the distance, the roughness softens until the slope looks almost 223 00:13:28,326 --> 00:13:29,463 smooth. 224 00:13:29,463 --> 00:13:33,238 The road draws a gentle curve between the near texture and the far 225 00:13:33,238 --> 00:13:34,288 outline. 226 00:13:34,288 --> 00:13:38,738 Inside, you shift the sweater into a more comfortable fold. 227 00:13:39,126 --> 00:13:42,301 Your hands rest for a moment, then become still again. 228 00:13:42,301 --> 00:13:45,076 The engine has its low, regular sound. 229 00:13:45,076 --> 00:13:47,851 The journey does not need another subject yet. 230 00:13:47,851 --> 00:13:51,913 The ground offers enough to look at, and the sky gives it space. 231 00:13:51,913 --> 00:13:55,213 A ridge that seemed close begins to move behind us. 232 00:13:55,213 --> 00:13:56,876 Another opens ahead. 233 00:13:56,876 --> 00:14:01,088 The view repeats its simple changes without repeating the same picture. 234 00:14:01,088 --> 00:14:02,663 Near becomes far. 235 00:14:02,663 --> 00:14:05,713 A shaded face gives way to a brighter one. 236 00:14:05,713 --> 00:14:10,351 The cloud layer appears, disappears behind the land, and returns at 237 00:14:10,351 --> 00:14:11,963 the next bend. 238 00:14:12,351 --> 00:14:15,876 You begin to recognize the rhythm of the road, even though you do not 239 00:14:15,876 --> 00:14:18,001 need to remember its turns. 240 00:14:18,001 --> 00:14:21,401 You find a comfortable way to rest your head against the seat. 241 00:14:21,401 --> 00:14:25,026 The view does not become less interesting, but it becomes easier to 242 00:14:25,026 --> 00:14:26,326 let it pass. 243 00:14:26,326 --> 00:14:28,388 The large shapes are enough now. 244 00:14:28,388 --> 00:14:32,888 A near slope moving across the window, a farther ridge remaining visible, 245 00:14:32,888 --> 00:14:36,163 a patch of cloud that seems to stay in place. 246 00:14:36,163 --> 00:14:40,776 The engine has the same low note beneath all of it, and the cabin carries 247 00:14:40,776 --> 00:14:43,551 you gently from one view to the next. 248 00:15:01,483 --> 00:15:04,470 The mountain carries meanings beyond this visit. 249 00:15:04,470 --> 00:15:08,608 Maunakea has profound cultural and spiritual significance to Native 250 00:15:08,608 --> 00:15:12,783 Hawaiians, and a day's view from the road cannot contain all of that 251 00:15:12,783 --> 00:15:14,083 significance. 252 00:15:14,083 --> 00:15:17,783 We can hold the journey with respect, allowing the place to remain 253 00:15:17,783 --> 00:15:20,133 larger than our own memory of it. 254 00:15:20,133 --> 00:15:24,020 The photograph gives us a view, not possession of the mountain. 255 00:15:24,020 --> 00:15:27,708 The road has brought us here for a short time, and it will carry us 256 00:15:27,708 --> 00:15:29,133 away again. 257 00:15:29,133 --> 00:15:33,620 As you look out, the land feels complete without our attention. 258 00:15:34,033 --> 00:15:37,020 A slope extends beyond the edge of the window. 259 00:15:37,020 --> 00:15:40,183 A cloud line continues beyond the photograph. 260 00:15:40,183 --> 00:15:42,783 The view does not end where the frame ends. 261 00:15:42,783 --> 00:15:46,058 That is one of the quiet pleasures of looking at a place: there is 262 00:15:46,058 --> 00:15:48,233 always more of it than we can see. 263 00:15:48,233 --> 00:15:52,295 You notice a low rise near the road, then a higher one beyond it. 264 00:15:52,295 --> 00:15:56,170 A pale building is now a small mark on a distant ridge. 265 00:15:56,170 --> 00:15:59,470 The observatory area has begun to recede. 266 00:15:59,470 --> 00:16:03,595 The vehicle is turning toward the route home, and the journey's direction 267 00:16:03,595 --> 00:16:05,320 becomes simpler. 268 00:16:05,708 --> 00:16:08,558 We have seen what this visit allowed us to see. 269 00:16:08,558 --> 00:16:12,733 The open ground, the light on the buildings, the cloud layer below 270 00:16:12,733 --> 00:16:14,245 the distant mountain. 271 00:16:14,245 --> 00:16:17,758 Those details can travel with us without needing to become a complete 272 00:16:17,758 --> 00:16:19,383 account of the place. 273 00:16:19,383 --> 00:16:21,033 The road bends away. 274 00:16:21,033 --> 00:16:24,533 For a moment, one last clear view opens through the window. 275 00:16:24,533 --> 00:16:27,620 You let it remain there as long as the turn allows. 276 00:16:27,620 --> 00:16:31,933 Then the nearest slope comes between us and the ridge, and the observatories 277 00:16:31,933 --> 00:16:34,020 slip quietly out of sight. 278 00:16:34,020 --> 00:16:36,820 The last view of the ridge is simple. 279 00:16:37,208 --> 00:16:41,433 The pale buildings are separated by a wide stretch of ground, and the 280 00:16:41,433 --> 00:16:44,433 sky has plenty of space above them. 281 00:16:44,433 --> 00:16:46,720 You do not search for another angle. 282 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,620 This one can become the angle you remember. 283 00:16:49,620 --> 00:16:53,958 The vehicle begins its turn, and the window holds the scene for a moment 284 00:16:53,958 --> 00:16:55,045 longer. 285 00:16:55,045 --> 00:17:00,120 Then the land nearest the road takes its place, and the return journey 286 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,508 becomes the view before us. 287 00:17:20,937 --> 00:17:24,987 On the return road, the view belongs more fully to the slopes. 288 00:17:24,987 --> 00:17:28,787 The buildings are behind us, and the ground near the window is scattered 289 00:17:28,787 --> 00:17:29,987 with stone. 290 00:17:29,987 --> 00:17:32,537 The road has a paler surface now. 291 00:17:32,537 --> 00:17:36,312 Its edges blend more gradually into the surrounding earth, though the 292 00:17:36,312 --> 00:17:40,124 route itself is still easy to follow in the remembered journey. 293 00:17:40,124 --> 00:17:44,424 A curve leads around the side of a rise, then opens toward a wider 294 00:17:44,424 --> 00:17:45,837 stretch of land. 295 00:17:45,837 --> 00:17:49,787 You rest against the seat and let the movement of the vehicle become 296 00:17:49,787 --> 00:17:50,999 familiar. 297 00:17:50,999 --> 00:17:53,949 The driver takes care of the bends. 298 00:17:54,337 --> 00:17:58,312 From the passenger side, the mountain seems to turn gently past the 299 00:17:58,312 --> 00:17:59,324 window. 300 00:17:59,324 --> 00:18:03,399 The nearest ridge moves, while the distant cloud line stays in view 301 00:18:03,399 --> 00:18:04,749 a little longer. 302 00:18:04,749 --> 00:18:08,474 Looking out, you begin to notice fewer separate things. 303 00:18:08,474 --> 00:18:11,987 Earlier, a particular stone or a small part of a building might have 304 00:18:11,987 --> 00:18:13,624 held your attention. 305 00:18:13,624 --> 00:18:15,962 Now, a whole slope can be enough. 306 00:18:15,962 --> 00:18:20,874 Its color, its shaded side, the place where it meets the sky. 307 00:18:20,874 --> 00:18:25,174 The daylight in the photographs remains clear and steady. 308 00:18:25,562 --> 00:18:29,412 The quiet in our story comes from the way attention settles, rather 309 00:18:29,412 --> 00:18:32,562 than from changing the weather or the time of day. 310 00:18:32,562 --> 00:18:35,462 We can remember a bright landscape softly. 311 00:18:35,462 --> 00:18:39,187 We can carry the blue sky into an evening room without asking it to 312 00:18:39,187 --> 00:18:41,037 become a night sky. 313 00:18:41,037 --> 00:18:43,887 The road continues its unhurried curve. 314 00:18:43,887 --> 00:18:48,774 The engine note changes a little, then returns to its familiar sound. 315 00:18:48,774 --> 00:18:52,724 Beside you, the sweater has kept its comfortable shape. 316 00:18:52,724 --> 00:18:57,524 There is room to look out, and room to close your eyes for a while. 317 00:18:57,937 --> 00:19:00,712 Either way, the return journey goes on. 318 00:19:00,712 --> 00:19:04,812 Along one bend, the road and the cloud line seem to travel in the same 319 00:19:04,812 --> 00:19:06,049 direction. 320 00:19:06,049 --> 00:19:08,687 One is close enough to show its surface. 321 00:19:08,687 --> 00:19:11,687 The other is far away, pale and soft. 322 00:19:11,687 --> 00:19:15,174 They remain together through part of the turn, then the road curves 323 00:19:15,174 --> 00:19:18,237 inward and the clouds continue beyond it. 324 00:19:18,237 --> 00:19:22,212 You watch the two lines separate, and the near slope fills more of 325 00:19:22,212 --> 00:19:23,449 the window. 326 00:19:23,449 --> 00:19:29,312 A small change in direction has given the picture another quiet arrangement. 327 00:19:48,313 --> 00:19:53,063 Gradually, the details of the visit begin to find their places in memory. 328 00:19:53,063 --> 00:19:56,538 The observatory dome is one pale curve. 329 00:19:56,538 --> 00:19:59,963 The cinder cone is one warm brown shape. 330 00:19:59,963 --> 00:20:04,888 The road is a line that turns across the slope and disappears behind it. 331 00:20:04,888 --> 00:20:09,813 They do not need to remain as sharp as they were when the camera recorded them. 332 00:20:09,813 --> 00:20:12,913 The photographs can keep the sharpness. 333 00:20:12,913 --> 00:20:15,963 Memory can keep the ease of the journey. 334 00:20:15,963 --> 00:20:21,100 You picture the passenger window, and the familiar edge of the seat. 335 00:20:21,513 --> 00:20:25,713 You remember a stretch of cloud below the distant land, without trying 336 00:20:25,713 --> 00:20:28,825 to recover every small shape along it. 337 00:20:28,825 --> 00:20:33,350 A journey sometimes becomes restful only after it is over, when the 338 00:20:33,350 --> 00:20:37,000 mind no longer has to prepare for the next turn. 339 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,500 This one can begin to rest now. 340 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:43,175 The vehicle moves toward the lower part of the route. 341 00:20:43,175 --> 00:20:47,500 The high views are behind us, but a little of their openness seems 342 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:49,538 to remain in the cabin. 343 00:20:49,538 --> 00:20:53,700 A quiet space between one thought and the next. 344 00:20:54,113 --> 00:20:58,513 You adjust your position, and the seat feels comfortable again. 345 00:20:58,513 --> 00:21:02,438 The sweater lies across your lap in the imagined journey. 346 00:21:02,438 --> 00:21:05,375 Its weight is ordinary and familiar. 347 00:21:05,375 --> 00:21:10,075 The road sound continues beneath the story, low enough to become part 348 00:21:10,075 --> 00:21:11,550 of the background. 349 00:21:11,550 --> 00:21:16,088 Outside, the mountain has more slopes than we can follow, and more 350 00:21:16,088 --> 00:21:18,213 stones than we can count. 351 00:21:18,213 --> 00:21:20,200 We let them remain together. 352 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,325 A broad surface of brown and gray. 353 00:21:23,325 --> 00:21:26,000 A pale distance beyond it. 354 00:21:26,313 --> 00:21:30,375 The journey is becoming less a sequence of views and more the simple 355 00:21:30,375 --> 00:21:33,813 feeling of traveling home after a day outside. 356 00:21:33,813 --> 00:21:37,963 The mind keeps the order of a journey for a while, then begins to gather 357 00:21:37,963 --> 00:21:40,225 its moments in a different way. 358 00:21:40,225 --> 00:21:44,775 A pause beside the road may sit next to a view made farther along it. 359 00:21:44,775 --> 00:21:48,550 A color may remain without the bend that first revealed it. 360 00:21:48,550 --> 00:21:52,013 That is how this visit can become a quiet memory. 361 00:21:52,013 --> 00:21:56,875 We let its useful details settle, while the road itself continues toward 362 00:21:56,875 --> 00:21:58,963 the familiar end of the day 363 00:22:18,711 --> 00:22:22,924 Now the photographs are like prints placed in a quiet room. 364 00:22:22,924 --> 00:22:25,799 One shows the road across the ridge. 365 00:22:25,799 --> 00:22:29,399 One holds a pale observatory against the sky. 366 00:22:29,399 --> 00:22:32,649 Another looks over rough volcanic ground. 367 00:22:32,649 --> 00:22:36,886 The last keeps the rounded cone and the cloud layer together. 368 00:22:36,886 --> 00:22:41,674 You can picture them as they are, each complete within its own frame. 369 00:22:41,674 --> 00:22:45,986 The room around them has enough space for other things: a comfortable 370 00:22:45,986 --> 00:22:51,536 chair, a folded sweater, a place for a cup, and a window through which 371 00:22:51,536 --> 00:22:53,874 the evening is passing. 372 00:22:54,261 --> 00:22:58,374 The day's journey has become something that can be looked at tomorrow. 373 00:22:58,374 --> 00:23:01,686 Tonight, the prints do not ask to be studied. 374 00:23:01,686 --> 00:23:04,836 Their colors can remain at the edge of attention. 375 00:23:04,836 --> 00:23:07,186 Brown, gray, white, blue. 376 00:23:07,186 --> 00:23:10,924 The shapes can become simpler as you grow more comfortable. 377 00:23:10,924 --> 00:23:12,724 A curve. A ridge. 378 00:23:12,724 --> 00:23:14,061 A pale line. 379 00:23:14,061 --> 00:23:18,611 The remembered vehicle has reached its quiet destination, and the road 380 00:23:18,611 --> 00:23:21,886 no longer needs to continue through the story. 381 00:23:21,886 --> 00:23:25,024 The small sounds of travel fall away. 382 00:23:25,024 --> 00:23:29,099 Whatever quiet sounds belong to the room where you are can take their 383 00:23:29,099 --> 00:23:30,299 place. 384 00:23:30,686 --> 00:23:34,286 Perhaps there is a steady household sound nearby. 385 00:23:34,286 --> 00:23:36,811 Perhaps the room is almost still. 386 00:23:36,811 --> 00:23:39,411 We can leave those sounds as they are. 387 00:23:39,411 --> 00:23:43,936 The mountain is far away, the photographs have kept the day's light, 388 00:23:43,936 --> 00:23:46,086 and you have brought the journey home. 389 00:23:46,086 --> 00:23:50,324 There is no scene left to catch before it disappears from the window. 390 00:23:50,324 --> 00:23:52,536 No next turn to look for. 391 00:23:52,536 --> 00:23:57,549 The images are resting in their frames, with the road held safely inside 392 00:23:57,549 --> 00:23:58,711 one of them. 393 00:23:58,711 --> 00:24:03,174 You can let your attention rest a little closer now, with the familiar 394 00:24:03,174 --> 00:24:05,124 place around you. 395 00:24:05,536 --> 00:24:09,399 One print is a little farther from the chair than the others. 396 00:24:09,399 --> 00:24:13,611 From where you are sitting, its nearest stones are already becoming 397 00:24:13,611 --> 00:24:15,436 a single texture. 398 00:24:15,436 --> 00:24:19,224 You could lean forward to see them more clearly, but tonight you are 399 00:24:19,224 --> 00:24:21,374 comfortable where you are. 400 00:24:21,374 --> 00:24:25,874 The picture has room for distance, and you have room for rest. 401 00:24:25,874 --> 00:24:28,349 The cup stays in its place. 402 00:24:28,349 --> 00:24:30,849 The sweater stays folded. 403 00:24:30,849 --> 00:24:35,086 The day has brought its few small things home again. 404 00:24:55,132 --> 00:24:59,395 A day outside often leaves one or two details clearer than all the 405 00:24:59,395 --> 00:25:00,445 others. 406 00:25:00,445 --> 00:25:03,695 Tonight, perhaps it is the curve of the road. 407 00:25:03,695 --> 00:25:08,195 Perhaps it is the cloud layer, pale beneath the distant land. 408 00:25:08,195 --> 00:25:11,720 Perhaps it is simply the amount of sky in the view. 409 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,570 Any one of those memories can be enough. 410 00:25:14,570 --> 00:25:17,532 The rest of the day can settle around it. 411 00:25:17,532 --> 00:25:22,420 The small things that once needed arranging have found their places. 412 00:25:22,420 --> 00:25:26,995 The journey's beginning, the pauses, the return road. 413 00:25:26,995 --> 00:25:30,870 They belong to a day that is already complete. 414 00:25:31,282 --> 00:25:35,620 In the quiet room of the story, the sweater is folded again, and the 415 00:25:35,620 --> 00:25:37,782 cup has been set down. 416 00:25:37,782 --> 00:25:40,282 The photographs remain on the wall. 417 00:25:40,282 --> 00:25:43,682 You can see the mountain without traveling toward it. 418 00:25:43,682 --> 00:25:48,120 You can remember the daylight without staying awake inside the memory. 419 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:52,470 The words have become slower, and the space between them belongs to 420 00:25:52,470 --> 00:25:53,520 rest. 421 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:58,620 The nearest slope in the picture softens into one broad shade. 422 00:25:58,620 --> 00:26:04,870 The observatory buildings are pale marks, with plenty of sky above them. 423 00:26:05,257 --> 00:26:09,107 The cloud line is a patch of light across the distance. 424 00:26:09,107 --> 00:26:12,282 There is no need to bring the details closer again. 425 00:26:12,282 --> 00:26:16,520 The camera has done that part of the work, and the photograph can hold 426 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,470 them until another day. 427 00:26:18,470 --> 00:26:20,607 Here, the room is familiar. 428 00:26:20,607 --> 00:26:23,245 The place where you are resting is close. 429 00:26:23,245 --> 00:26:27,720 The long return road is now only a line in a picture, and the journey 430 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,582 along it has come gently to an end. 431 00:26:30,582 --> 00:26:34,720 You can leave the mountain in its frame and let the evening continue 432 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,620 quietly around you. 433 00:26:36,620 --> 00:26:40,395 The evening room has its own small order. 434 00:26:40,807 --> 00:26:46,970 A chair beside the wall, a folded cloth, a quiet space near the window. 435 00:26:46,970 --> 00:26:51,295 The mountain pictures fit into that order without changing it. 436 00:26:51,295 --> 00:26:56,807 They are views of somewhere far away, held within a place that is familiar. 437 00:26:56,807 --> 00:27:01,945 You can leave the far distance where it belongs, inside its frame. 438 00:27:01,945 --> 00:27:07,482 Close by, the room is settled, and the evening is passing at its own 439 00:27:07,482 --> 00:27:09,232 gentle pace. 440 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,562 We have followed the mountain road home. 441 00:27:32,562 --> 00:27:37,637 The high ridges, the pale buildings, and the clouds remain in the photographs, 442 00:27:37,637 --> 00:27:40,688 just as the daylight visit recorded them. 443 00:27:40,688 --> 00:27:44,738 Our imagined journey has brought them into a quieter part of the day, 444 00:27:44,738 --> 00:27:46,738 then allowed them to rest. 445 00:27:46,738 --> 00:27:49,800 The road no longer moves past the window. 446 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,862 It stays within the picture. 447 00:27:51,862 --> 00:27:56,050 The distant sky no longer needs to be followed to its edge. 448 00:27:56,050 --> 00:27:58,650 It simply gives the mountain room. 449 00:27:58,650 --> 00:28:01,275 Brown ground beneath blue. 450 00:28:01,275 --> 00:28:06,262 A pale cloud line between the nearer slope and the far land. 451 00:28:06,675 --> 00:28:10,912 Those few shapes can remain together for a little while, then become 452 00:28:10,912 --> 00:28:12,488 less important. 453 00:28:12,488 --> 00:28:15,025 The room around you is enough now. 454 00:28:15,025 --> 00:28:19,775 Its familiar sounds, its familiar stillness, the comfort of the place 455 00:28:19,775 --> 00:28:21,562 where you are lying down. 456 00:28:21,562 --> 00:28:25,512 A thought can pass through without beginning another journey. 457 00:28:25,512 --> 00:28:29,538 A memory can settle without being finished in words. 458 00:28:29,538 --> 00:28:33,212 The photographs will be there when the day returns. 459 00:28:33,212 --> 00:28:35,912 Tonight, we can leave them gently. 460 00:28:35,912 --> 00:28:38,837 The curve of the road grows quiet. 461 00:28:38,837 --> 00:28:41,988 The mountain outline grows quiet. 462 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:47,162 The small pale buildings rest beneath their clear sky. 463 00:28:47,162 --> 00:28:51,837 There is a little space after the last words, and you do not need to 464 00:28:51,837 --> 00:28:53,212 wait for it. 465 00:28:53,212 --> 00:28:56,087 The remembered visit is complete. 466 00:28:56,087 --> 00:28:58,488 The road has brought us home. 467 00:28:58,488 --> 00:28:59,900 Good night.