How lucky I am to have a break in the middle of the week! To be able to stay here in front of a so beautiful landscape!
I can see the sparrows land in the tree next to my balcony, almost in front actually… Now the forsythia blooms disappeared and this morning there are these large blackbirds coming in in bands at times . They’re looking for food. I don’t know. It’s pretty cold today. Around three degrees from what I’ve heard from the news. I haven’t checked on the balcony… The flowers of the trees have almost gone by… The pear tree at the bottom of the yard is all green at the base.
Yes, yes there are three of them with a yellow peak, these large blackbirds… They’re just paying a visit, I know that.
They have orange paws (legs). It’s fun to see them. Although I wouldn’t like them to be constantly here, to pick on the wine in autumn for example. When it’s later in the season, they go further up in the mountain. There are typical birds from this region from the Alps. See: Alpine chough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_chough
Yes, the other day, I think it was on Monday afternoon, while my students took a test, I composed a haiku looking at the trees . And today, what I see in my garden, looking down there is similar to what I was seeing from the classroom. That is these dark trunks make like breaks. These strong black lines are something special (I) can’t find the English word right now. But that’s what you have in a building for example, when on the the facade the paint breaks at certain places (Actually: crack, chink).
And these tree trunks and branches look like that, in the green – It was a bit yellow on Monday, and here it’s a bit it’s a mixture of white and bright green.
There is still the White Tooth at the back and the snow will stay for almost the whole year. The snow is melting on the Bear pist only a kind of tongue of snow remains because it is where snow cannons were used. You can see the hills (moguls) on the pist
I didn’t have such a good sleep. At least around four o’clock I was awake , thinking of the ‘cheek’ of some students and of their problems with my test. Had to check my conscience if I had done things properly. Which I did.
Yes now four of them. Five of them. blackbirds, six. Yes, 20 of them have disappeared. Just from my hitting the window pane. And this time again 10. Yes, (actually), that’s not necessarily funny. I don’t know why I did it. I could have looked at them. But it’s menacing, isn’t it? So many birds around… although they’re beautiful to see while hovering, their stretched feathers strangely spread on their wings. What a system, isn’t it? Just as being able to hover like that would be so beautiful. Mankind has dreamt of that and has managed it.
It’s a beautiful sight and even the bright blue sky this morning with almost no mist except very far away in front of the White Tooth and the Hérens valley. It is beautiful contrast this black of these birds against the sky.
So, I’m having coffee the way I like it just with sugar. It is just strong the way I like it. There was a whole theory from a man on the internet saying that you should never boil your coffee otherwise it gets the wrong taste which is true. But sometimes when it’s not just a bit boiled, then it lacks taste, it’s too flat to me, so I don’t pay attention so much and I continue making my coffee the way I’ve always had…
So I wish you all a very pleasant day. I’ll probably work in the garden a bit. I’ve got some administrative stuff to do on the computer.
And I should definitely go on with my paper, kind of a paper, in Arpitan (that) I am preparing every month. First I thought I could do it every two months. And I feel like editing it just because a man I came across the other day he told me he had kept the editions which had landed into his letterbox. This has motivated me again.
Although I could very well start a new format. I don’t know. Because there is little space it’s half an A4 page and I cut it in two, so the A4 page, and there is a large illustrations so there isn’t much space to write. I put a lot of references to the internet although it’s not necessarily a good thing to have so many references to the internet on a… such a small paper. I could, for example, have one reference to many other things on the internet and this would be an expanded edition of my small paper.
I called it “the sly guy’ “I Manyën”, and “i manyën” was a man belonging to that profession of repairing pans. They were very well known people, knew all about other countries and villages, towns. They were very well informed and considered sly because of that. So that’s the name of my magazine.
Incidentally I distributed the last edition in the form (by the number) of 250 in the letter boxes. Which was a bit much because when you distribute it it takes you something like three hours or rathertwo. But I thought it was a bit long. 1 hour and a half is enough for a walk to my taste, at least.
Some planes are crossing the sky above the “Dent Blanche”. The lines stay in the sky when these jumbo jets go through. I can see three of them, four of them, now . It’s strange, it depends on the height at which they fly. Sometimes the line doesn’t stay for very long. In this case only one line has stayed. So one plane to the left. One up(wards), one to the right, abd another one to the right.
The glacier is at the end of the Hérens Valley I should know what its name is . It eludes me just now (“Ferpèrcle“!).
There is a very soft light on it. There was snow yesterday suddenly and that’s why it all looks powered. It’s in the blue. This color makes it one with the sky. There are very few clouds that are going to accumulate, they told us, during the day, these clouds.
But it’s fun to see how mountains are the same color as the sky. So the contrast is rather between the green all around the house here. The background which is already a bit hazy, hazier, brown, a bit darker. The colors don’t come out very clearly. And behind the large ridge of the roundish cone in front near Hérémence. And I know there is a hamlet called the “cherry tree” or “the cherries”, simply, Cerise, “Cheryeje” in Arpitan
Yes beyond that ridge, there are these snow-covered mountains above 4000 meter high. They are far away very far away. You always have the impression they are close and you have the impression they are really next to each other but actually they are in a kind of a row. And yes, the white tooth is so distant that if you are in the Hérens valley, you still have the impression the White Tooth is extremely far away.
It’s actually near the Cervin or Matterhorn, the very famous mountain of Switzerland. I can see the top of the Matterhorn on the right hand side of the White Tooth. But it’s not impressive and not interesting from here. From here, the White Tooth is definitely more interesting.
Incidentally in the program TV program called “Passe-moi les jumelles” , ‘Give me the binoculars.’ It is a program about sights and people of Switzerland or of the Alps region made of very beautiful photographs and sights. At the start of that program Yes, the first image is the white tooth and the second one is the Matterhorn. So I was surprised for once they gave a better spot to the White Tooth. They put it into relief.
Okay, so I’ve been rambling this time. I’m just waking up. Not fully awake yet.
Greetings! And have a great day!