Above the Mountains in the Clouds

July 24, 2013 · Filed under children, memories, mystery, nature studies, nostalgia, prompts, Uncategorized, wordpress, youth · Tagged 100 Lines a day, childhood, clouds cloud fromations, dailypost. wordpress, dreams, Friday Fictioneers, imagination, mountain views, prompts, vacations

I was about five years old. We were on our way to the beach for the first time. I opened my sleepy eyes as we went down the mountains and rubbed my eyes in disbelief. Below my was a fluffy layer of clouds with what looked like an island emerging from its center. Was I still asleep? Had I been lifted to some sort of magical land?

I looked up and say my parents in the front seat. My mom turned around and smiled, knowing my thoughts. “We are above the clouds, honey,” she smiled. “What you see is a mountaintop coming up from the valley.”

“Wow!” I though. “Could seeing the ocean for the first time really beat this?”