Edward Flaherty's Blog: flahertylandscape - Posts Tagged "swiss-alps"

The landscape pushes us out, we chase views, vistas. And the landscape pushes in on us, we reflect, ask questions.

It pushes across boundaries: physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. The landscape is there for all. We need only to open ourselves to it and explore.



Interlaken, Switzerland, in the Hohematte, looking East.

Inspirational mountains…settled by humans longer than the written record…

Nevertheless the human landmark for more than eight hundred years in this inspirational landscape is a tribute to God, the supreme power, the supreme authority. People turn to God because the landscape asks unusual questions of us.

In the above image, this landscape and the human shelters built there still, today in 2013, remind all of the human existential questions that stir in the landscape.

Spring primrose mountain joy.

At 2,000 meters above sea level, in the northern range of the Swiss Alps, I rediscovered the spring joy ( Primula veris ) I had experienced three weeks ago, albeit at 500 meters above sea level. The surprises of walking mountainous landscapes.

This joy can be discovered anytime, anywhere.

This is a similar joy to that Christopher Janus experiences in the Mediterranean gardens and landscape of Tangier, Morocco. For CJ it was both muse and adversary.

Read about it in my book, Tangier Gardens .