‘Stormbags’ over the mountains

The Presidential Range of the White Mountains

“Thunderheads were pouring toward them through the ragged teeth of the White Mountains, and Lisey counted seven dark spots where the high slopes had been smudged away by cauls of rain. Brilliant lightnings flashed inside those stormbags and between those two of them, connecting them like some fantastic fairy bridge, was a double rainbow that arched over Mount Cranmore in a frayed loophole of blue.”

— From Lisey’s Story, by the Maine-based novelist Stephen King

“Crawford Notch’’ (1872), in the White Mountains, by Thomas Hill (1829-1908)