We come, at last, to the final photos from my glorious four days in Zermatt last year. The last photo at the bottom here shows you the view from my upper-deck front seat window on the bus down valley from Täsch back to Visp (who up-valley journey we documented closer to the time), whence those various trains via Domodossola to the lovely lakesides villages & cities of Ticino. And just FYI, I’ve made a preliminary decision that I’ll aim for 400 posting days in a row on this swing, meaning you (and I) will be taking a break from the daily one-or-more posts near the end of this month.
I was in Locarno, on the shores of Lago Maggiore, nearly five months ago already. These are all from a lovely walk around the city on my first morning there. Below you’ll see some of the old “Castello Visconteo,” or viscount’s castle I guess, which is one of the older buildings in this city which dates to the 12th century but does have some Roman history as well, I believe. I mostly just walked around and enjoyed the views – didn’t go into the museum housed in the Castello, sorry…
The first “source” entry was a photo I took in Ticino, nearly a week after I took these ice-sculpture photos inside the glacier at the top of the “Little Matterhorn” last November 1st – but seeing the glacier, ice, snow, rivers, frost on the grass around Zermatt in the mornings: all of those experiences helped me decide I’d need to try this series out. What else can be both shelter and sculpting material, cushion if you wall into it when it’s still soft, exercise medium when we swim, absolutely necessity for and source of the life-forms we know here on earth…and so many other things? There are more ice sculptures to come, from Nordkapp. But I figure first I’d show you the ones from Zermatt :-).
Nearing the end of my photos from Zermatt at the end of October and the first days of November last year, so we’ll soon be showing you more of the snowy mountains of Norway instead of the sunny and snowy southern Swiss alps. But we do still have more from Ticino, rich in both lakes and mountains! 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 