And these last shots of Mont Blanc living up to its name, taken from the roof of our office in Geneva shortly before I hopped the bus to the airport for the flight home. 🙂
We’ve swung a bit southeast to fly in more on the south side of Lac Leman, so you’re seeing Lac Leman at the top right, and more of Lac Neuchatel at the top lef, with some little lakes in mountains in front of them.
I knew I was seeing the southeastern end of Lac Neuchatel, which meant that curving lake in the distance was the eastern end of Lac Leman…and then I noticed a mountain rising noticeably higher than its neighbors and concluded it must be Mont Blanc. Took the close up below to convince myself. Was I wrong?
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.
These are from the September flight home from Geneva, flying along the shore of Lac Leman as noted in a prior post of cloud formations I watched later in this journey. At the airport, the border with France s well this side of those mountains; here, the mountains are likely entirely in Switzerland.
My sunrise journey at altitude on the morning of the 12th, traveling south-southeast past the northwestern shores of first the Bielersee, then Lac de Neuchatel, and finally Lac Léman before lining up for a landing at Geneva’s international airport gave me such stunning views that I decided I’ll catch show them all for the next several posts and also thus get my series numbers slightly more aligned. If you check the last post in this series, you’ll see all the first two of those lakes, with smaller Murtensee to the south. Now you’re watching the sun rise over what I’m fairly sure is the easternmost corner of Lac Léman, by the city of Montreux.
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....) 