We’ve shown you photos from this flight once before. It took a bit less than an hour to go from the flat green fields of NL to these shots of the alps as seen from above. Pretty sure these are mostly over Switzerland, and still pretty sure the lake below is more of Lago Maggiore, which means some of the southernmost parts are Italy. Sorry for the reflections in some of these; I just love seeing the map come alive to my eyes :-).
The remarkable work of art shown in this post is called “Jarden d’Email,” or “Enamel Garden” in English. It’s a 1974 creation by Jean Dubuffet, who clearly created it entirely as a site-specific work. Calling it a sculpture feels weak, because it feels like so much more. Even with all my wonderful experiences dating back the 1980s at Storm King, this particular, truly wonderful creation really took my imagination to new places. I visited it each of the three days on which I entered the museum & park.
You might recall that my old friend Gary and I first scheduled our cruise in order, once in our life, to see the northern lights live. As I’ve shown through dozens, even hundreds, of posts since January – we saw so much more than just the northern lights, even with the days as short as they were. We did, as I’ve shown you only a few times before, also see the lights themselves, three nights in a row on which we were fortunate to have clear skies. I don’t have a fancy camera that allows a long exposure – but my plain old phone did capture several images, which are hard to make out if you have background light. This was our experience: the first time we thought we were looking at mist or smoke in the sky, until we noticed it was moving and changing shape frequently. The colors only emerge as your eyes sensitize a lot – or on the camera if you have a long enough or good enough exposure. At the bottom, one from Gary where the color is less rich but the lights are more visible than above or in my other small shots below.
Coastal Norway, from our last day at sea. Might still post an aurora shot or two, but this pretty much end o’ the Norway photos…at last, you may be thinking :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 