Tuesday 12 June 2007

Weather forecast or trouble - you choose


The current weather situation here is, ehm... say quite as fragile as an egg thrown against solid rock. And that reminds me of 3 mad hikers I met last year when I took this pic high above Lenk, Simmental (Bernese Oberland). It was 4pm and either time to find a try spot in the nearby shelter or maybe the last chance to head for the village. And guess what. The 3 hikers, a German daddy and his two teenage sons, were heading in the other direction. They intended to climb Wildstrubel, a serious mountain, hard enough in good weather conditions. I tried to stop 'em but they wouldn't listen. And believe me, the night was bad enough. They too, must remember that hike :-)

2 comments:

Mental Floss said...

I'm sure they do!

Anonymous said...

12 JUne 2007


A silver sky

ripe for the mirror.

you can not see yourself in this mirror

you can only see others

moreover, you can only see what others choose to expose.

Their houses, their boats, their sea-doos.




Birds skimming low over the water could

like as not

see them selves if they were to look down

as they skim low over the water

but they never do.

Rather they allow their reflections to chase them

quick and sharp over the still, glistening waters

while the bird's mind remains ever fixed on

food, or other birds, or escaping those damn noisy humans.










A dense forest impenetrable as a gaze.