Just taking off from Geneva (before the pics in the prior post – sorry if confusing), so these would be the mountains I’m fairly sure are on the other side of the French border.
Our last post was my first view of the alps, looking west-southwest as our plane started to line up along the French-Swiss border for its final dawn approach to land in Geneva. Thanks to an ungodly-early departure from my home on Thursday (after a late return from a delightful bassoon recital with Sam the prior evening), we arrived in viewing proximity to this magnificence at just the right time to enjoy that pre-sunrise glow without having to deal with the glare of el sol shining directly into the phone’s lens. These were taken the following day after a meeting downtown, when I got to see Mt. Blanc rising behind the city – last month when I was there the clouds were too to experience this, though friends told me it happened often. Wow.
Just last month in Geneva. And I’m about to head down there again for some more meetings later this week – here’s hoping the weather will allow another walk or two and some accompanying photos of this lakeside city which really is gorgeous :-).
After taking off from Geneva’s airport two weeks ago, we followed the lake shore and then cut northwest and away from the lake, with a lovely view of this dramatic cloud formation for quite some time as the light on the land grew dimmer and dimmer, and the cloud colors more vibrant. Above, that’s the short of Lac Léman to the east of Geneva.
(so much world, so little time....) 