Pyrenees photos revisited

 Two photos from the Vall Fosca region of the Pallars Jussà comarca

The trail from Gento Lake and Erica growing on the mountainside

Buncrana Shore Path Revisited

 A photo from our 2019 visit. I've posted other pictures of this area here, easily searchable happily enough. Hoping to make another visit this autumn!

 

 

Autumn walks and drives

 A cell phone view of the Pre-Pyrenees from our hotel, the Cal Taverner, in Monsonís. This is in the La Noguera comarca of Catalonia. It's about a 30 minute drive from Balaguer. I'll post some more texts soon. It is beautiful to get out and walk around the countryside. Coldish mornings, though!

Happy world poetry day

 May poetic creation in all its many forms continue to shine a light.

finding lichen on a Pyrenees walk

 

finding lichen on a Pyrenees walk

 

easy enough

walking like this

of course the grades

now make some difference

a carp on yesterday

brings an edge

yes and don’t we (oft-times)

term the other sweet

life itself

chipped mold

color

The Giant's Causeway

(in fact a revision of a previously published version)

The Giant’s Causeway, August 2, 2015, morning

Imagined footfalls on basalt

overshadow my blue path stroll.

The blue Atlantic froths

against black rock—

white fletchings

needling

waxed tidewater.

Fields through grasses

Rosselló, Catalonia, 8 December 2019

Pear tree palimpsest

(an orchard onn the outskirts of Rosselló)

Old bridge, Besalú, Catalonia

This bridge in Besalú dates from the twelfth century.

5 or 6 questions for green

5 or 6 questions for green

Woodland. What faces or if not

where can surds enter the

picture. Eleven numbers scrub

clearly in childhood & adult.

Phrase or seal or cell homeward

though perhaps not to each in

the very same instant or question.

Two short diary pieces--2001

18 August 2001. On the Rabat-Fes train about an hour and a half from our destination the countryside reminds me of Aragon or Castile. There are olive plantations and long expanses of dry rolling fields. The same sort of wild cane and willows grow along the little creek here, but agave is more prevalent. An occasional pair of royal palms. The plowed up harvested hay fields vary in color, gray, brown or red. They stack the rectangular bales up in the form of a small house with a hip roof. Grazing sheep. In the watered areas maize grows and you might see half a dozen holsteins or black angus. Herds of sheep mixed with goats graze in the hay stubble.

22 August 2001. Leaving Chauen. Prickly pear and agave on the roadside. Olive plantations or scattered olive trees dotting rolling dry fields otherwise covered in scrubland, which includes a dwarfed palmetto. Tobacco in white flowering bloom. Wild cane. And the mountains in the distance enclosing the whole. Overcast slowly but surely penetrated by the sunshine. Oleanders grow wild in and alongside the rivers & creeks.