Tag: Mountains
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White on white
White on white The bathtub in the snow reveals that we are here on a mountain pasture in winter. The cows are in their shed down in the valley. The marmots are hibernating in their holes underground. And the people have closed their summer chalets and have moved to their homes lower down. The virgin…
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Yosemite
Yosemite It had been snowing till early spring that year in the Californian Sierra Nevada. Even by July the snow had not yet disappeared from the higher altitudes and I remember us driving, and pitching our tent, between heaps of snow in full summer. This was probably the reason why, when we came to Yosemite,…
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Rhythmic mountain song …
Rhythmic mountain song … … for two silent voices. I love the mountains – being in their midst – because of their majestic silence. Whenever I see the photograph of these two ridges, I pause for a moment and listen to their soundless music, a beautiful music of silence. Cage or Feldman could have composed…
