I am convinced that men are born with an innate ability to pose on mountains. At one outcropping of rocks it took 5 minutes to even persuade Julia to go out to the edge. This meek stance is the best she managed at first:
So I had to teach her a few basic poses. Most important is the "carefree-fun-loving-fly-like-a-bird pose:
Secondly you have to know the introspective-mountain-traveller-poet:
And finally, the always reliable look-over-yonder-at-that-spectacle:
In the end, I did manage to get the mountain girl out of her, after some practice, for pose number one:
I'm with Julia. Her "free-as-a bird, etc" pose is more like a "get-off-my-back-here's-your-pose" pose.
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