Rises and falls

[shewhomust]

Leaving le Mont-Dore the following morning, we took time to walk up to the waterfall - called, unimaginatively, "la Grande Cascade" - and could have followed the path on up to the pass, but returned instead to the car and drove up. The top of the pass was higher than I had expected, swept by the wind and dotted with herds of caramel coloured cattle, imperturbable as the land fell away from them into blue distances.

We paused to picnic on a high outcrop called the Rocher de l'Aigle, the Eagle's Rock, looking back amazed at the way we had come, and then on to Jonas, a cluster of medieval cave dwellings carved into the volcanic stone of the hillside: a path winds along the cliff face, linking the nobleman's house, the baker's oven, the chapel...

And on into Murat, where we found a bed for the night Au Toit de Lauzes (room 4, to be precise).

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Incredibly cool stuff!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I feel very self-indulgent posting it!

[cellio]

Oh, what a beautiful place! I love waterfalls, the smaller ones like this much moreso than the big majestic ones.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Don't be fooled by the perspective: this one is quite high - though not as impressive as those nearer to home on the river Tees!

[cellio]

I don't doubt that it's high. What it isn't -- and this is a reason I like it -- is wide. When I commented before about size, I had in mind, for example, Niagara. Sure, it's big and wide and grandiose, but it lacks the character of a waterfall that can share a landscape. :-)

Yours reminds me of a fall in Ein Gedi:



(I was never able to get the whole thing in a single shot.)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. I admit I hadn't thought of Niagara - it's sort of exceptional :)

Good photo: the falling-from-nowhere effect may not have been by choice, but it works...

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[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

Wonderful technology!