I can see him striding down that hill now. I understand why your mind went to that particular tale. No matter how beautiful the scene is here, there is that sense of the tale of yesteryear.
"Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." ~Dorothea Lange
Nicely composed shot mate!