I love all your work you share here, but I'm a real sucker for the fieldwork posts! Your eye is so keen, the things you notice and bring back to share with us really place the reader and observer within the environment you are sampling. The added bonus that I know these places, that mountain, that valley, this road, is just the proverbial icing on the cake.
This year, my in-laws revisited the area around La Meije, as they had climbed it (roped up and all) when they were younger. I found this rather moving, the idea of the mountain, still being there, even if the ice has retreated in that time, and the humans heading back for another look. The mountain stays within us, and stays there, physically, even as we age and, eventually, return our constituent molecules into the wider world. Moving, but also reassuring and calming. Which is an odd tangent, but one I thank you for!
Those views! Incredible. What a glorious way to spend time, and the food sounds delicious (though I too would want to retreat, combination of introversion and an increasing craving for early bedtimes -- very un-European of me).
Thank you! I’m not involved in the actual analysis of the data, just the grunt work haha. But I will try to relate the new developments as they come :)
What a glorious post! And not just the photos, which your opening led me to imagine would be the “main thing’ here, but the delicious narrative immersions into both the field work and the fruits of Being in the field (I loved your response to the vultures’ return after your colleague had cued you into them). Huzzah!
I love all your work you share here, but I'm a real sucker for the fieldwork posts! Your eye is so keen, the things you notice and bring back to share with us really place the reader and observer within the environment you are sampling. The added bonus that I know these places, that mountain, that valley, this road, is just the proverbial icing on the cake.
This year, my in-laws revisited the area around La Meije, as they had climbed it (roped up and all) when they were younger. I found this rather moving, the idea of the mountain, still being there, even if the ice has retreated in that time, and the humans heading back for another look. The mountain stays within us, and stays there, physically, even as we age and, eventually, return our constituent molecules into the wider world. Moving, but also reassuring and calming. Which is an odd tangent, but one I thank you for!
Beautiful!
Those views! Incredible. What a glorious way to spend time, and the food sounds delicious (though I too would want to retreat, combination of introversion and an increasing craving for early bedtimes -- very un-European of me).
Thank you! Glad I’m not alone, haha.
Beautiful views and lovely photography! I'd love to hear what your findings are.
Thank you! I’m not involved in the actual analysis of the data, just the grunt work haha. But I will try to relate the new developments as they come :)
I could look at those mountains all day. I totally get why you refer to it/them as another dimension. Indeed, they are!
What a glorious post! And not just the photos, which your opening led me to imagine would be the “main thing’ here, but the delicious narrative immersions into both the field work and the fruits of Being in the field (I loved your response to the vultures’ return after your colleague had cued you into them). Huzzah!
Thank you Jim! You’re right, it’s not just about the eye candy 😄