Taking in a View of Mount Nittany

In yesterday's posting, I mentioned that I visited the Ten Thousand Villages shop inside the HUB. I purchased a few new critters there, including four small, colorful cats.

On this morning, the cats insisted I take them along on my adventures. I was heading in to work, by way of Millbrook Marsh. They had never seen a marsh, they said. They wanted to go along. So off we went.

The marsh has a duck blind and I think that was their favorite part. In the summer, there is usually a nest of swallows in the rafters, but we are way past that season now.

If you stand inside the duck blind and face the open door, you get a great look at the marsh. The cats also discovered that the windows afforded a wonderful view: golden cattails in the foreground, and Mount Nittany looking lovely in the distance.

The song to accompany this image has to be about a mountain. So here is I Have Been to the Mountain, and I'm including two performances of it: one by Patty Griffin, the other by Kelly Clarkson. The song is a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., and it is based on his famous I Have Been to the Mountaintop speech (the final speech he ever gave), which you may read here or listen to in its entirety here.