Crossing snowy meadows to rivers
where ouzels sing in winter. Writing.
His dense, splendid prose. Inseparable
from his wild dark mountain drawings
Born in Dunbar, Scotland,
John Muir was thirty-four years old,
when tonalist painter William Keith
and his companions
arrived uninvited at Muir's cabin in Yosemite.
Born near Aberdeen, Scotland,
Keith was also thirty-four.

[ where every luminous landscape]