Aha I thought. It had been the sort of decent but mental few days really I was charged up for this. How many geological wonders have I perused as a climber and trekker walking hill and dale, cym and pass. This thought had come to me before and now I have it more developed but on this day I saw it as was meant to be. The slopes had rocks sticking out, they were not buttresses. This had two implications. One, Espe had managed to creep back in with her la bas, they are roche moutonee silly to my slow wit that had known the rocks in the tributary to Glencoe had been separated from the main, they were not necessarily rockfall however. Roche moutonee (accent missing on my keyboard) are rock sheep, they are dotted about the landscape in odd places because the glacier dropped them there. Common in mountainous scenery. Point two however, these rocks were all angular and upright looking begging me to find them a purpose and I said Stonehenge. They have an aspect that makes them appear in this high summer sun and turn of light to be in the wrong place to be mere crags accentuated due to the well grazed grass around them. They are not in fact embedded very deeply in the ground to my eye but look like they have been dropped by the glacier, sheared from the main formation. Heaviest side down. Meaning they look upright even if they are not vertical. Wow!This is actually really close or maybe I was very fit. I had just soloed the long Main Wall route on Cyrn Las and done it well as you must in fact do if soloing. The rock features are full of sharp shadow relief showing they look like standing stones.
Well it is attractive to look at, a perfect weather day too. I think my supposed partner probably had a safe day too with her more talented hook up.
How could the south coast have the same rock, well by being old for a start.
Not one to allow an eon of mysticism I have my doubts now. Perhaps the pyramids could have not been such a mystery either. Well let's not go over the Mediterranean with this however nice a day. It is just nice to think people did a bit less hoiking stuff a bout in the past. Many wider illusions spring from simple unwillingness to face the truth. We were taught that as fight or flight.
I had the idea the smaller stones were fitting this theory. But now I am wondering about the overall broken nature of the crags.
Perhaps climbing we should take care on some of these buttresses were we to do so. lower down the Llanberis Pass. There is so much to climb higher up they are not a magnet anyway.
Yes these rocks as they look on this sharp day are not so far away in fact as I find these photos to make them. Perhaps it is because they would lend themselves to being a buttress as there is such a volume but still, I maintain, upright by gravity in appearance.
The right hand side of the pictures. Shear faces, great climbing.
Some of these jumbles ressemble roche moutonnee.
I know many who willingly will set the whole chattering classes up for a fall and find it is in fact very hard to stop a stone rolling down a hill once it has started. Below!
Some would say all things spoken are true these days but i'll try and not lose myself having already lost one reader.
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Month: Jan 2020
Making sense of colour (in art)
A touch of blue, I noticed how strongly I am drawn to the
colour of sky in these pictures. I like to find blue in limestone,
often there is grey which light can reflect a hue of differing
colours. Colours are quite made up really, referential, it is said
we like green as a feeling of peace and yet the contrast is what
really makes a colour. Green soon becomes brown or red as you
break it apart to distinguish. A bright morning can be white,
yellow or red and tones will take any colour that overthrows the
pastel palete to generate crisp lines as your eyes wake up and
become accustomed or choose to reject a washed out appearance
in front of them. I suppose you could say that En Vau is not so
blue but like I was arguing then, it is in this case the colour
that allows me to like light limestone, to find it delicate and
full of features to tease out, a companion colour sometimes washed
in.
Yellow is much harder to see but I like it alot, perhaps it is rock that has it the most. in limestone it will be a dirty colour signalling uneveness and therefore broken down and loose, to a climber dangerous terrain. Yet I made the whole slope yellow as light colours can change fast in appearance as you focus on shape and form. This is where the favorites live, gentle persuaders, pastels who don't know what they are until shape lines and features reveal what they could be from a distance or another. About/Home-Bright Calm Illustrations Wales Local
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