In my youth, when I was backpacking around the world I spent a few months in Seattle but I never got to see the peak of the Mt. Rainier until the day that I flew out of Tacoma airport, and there above the clouds was the peak of the mountain. It is an image burnt into my memory, of a time in my life of freedom and wonder.
Of course as time passes, memory fades and one forgets or exaggerates the past, so it is always nice to have a little something to hold the memory fast in one’s mind. A postcard may act as a trigger, but it is so one dimensional, and could never capture ‘that view’. Now TinyMtn comes to the rescue with, tiny 3D printed mountains. Now I can have Mt. Ranier 3D printed on my desktop, and when I want to reminisce, I can drop some dry ice in a glass of water for an impromptu cloud, pull out my iPhone with an Olloclip attachment and fly it around the mountain, peering into the screen just like I peered out of the window in awe of the mountain peak, so many years ago. Thank you TinyMtn…
This is totally what TinyMtn is about! There’s just something magical about a mountain. How can a mass of rock so large and impersonal do that? I don’t know, but it just does.
(I find myself holding the Yosemite model up to my eye and remembering the first time I drove into the valley. It’s hard to drive when you’re in awe of such marvelous beauty.)