Urban Canals.189
We’ve shown you the Rheinfall, or Rhine Falls, and also the city of Schaffhausen just upstream from it, before. These are most of my remaining shots of the Rhine and the Rhine Falls. I’m saving a few for a new series I expect to launch in the new year :-), for which I haven’t quite decided on a name yet & might even try to do something snazzy like include a poll in the first iteration to seek reader advice… Stay tuned, and may these last days of 2024 be full of people, place and activities that bring your joy and presence.
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Lake Living.54
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This and the last post are all from a lovely walk between Gandria, on the northern shore of the northeastern-most arm of the many-armed Lake Lugano, and the city of Lugano itself. (I’d taken a boat out to Gandria so I could walk back.) Below, you see a panorama which shows you the sunlit hill which marks the northeastern point of the bay on which Lugano sits, after which you get into that northeastern-most arm of which the majority is in Italy. As is the southwestern-most part, and also a wee exclave in the arm on which sits Bissone where I stayed. That arm, which connects to the rest of the lake further south & west, extends between the rounded mountain on the far right and the range in the middle (at the top of which it’s Italy again, fyi). Just sayin’ in case you wonder what you’re seeing or want to check it all out on a map :-). The photo at the top is looking from just below the sunlit hill (below) south towards the mountain that sits at the top of the arm I lived on. Sorry if this is TMI…
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Mountains.57
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In case anyone’s trying to follow along, these are all taken looking away from the Matterhorn, i.e. looking north to the village of Zermatt and the mountains north and east of the Matterhorn across one or more valleys. And all from that first morning hike last Tuesday – I really am deleting a lot of photos, but everywhere one turns around here, one sees beauty and I do love to enjoy and share beauty, as my small but loyal band of readers knows :-).
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(so much world, so little time....) 