Problems doing one thing

[fireceremony]

Have problems doing one thing. Want to

Write

novels
short stories
poems
video game reviews
film reviews
comics
non dual non fiction
travel stories

Take photographs

Travel to

The Smoke
Cheltenham
Edo & Heian-Kyo
Venezia & Lido
Caracas
Delft
Cologne
Berlin
Berne
Versailles
Zermatt

Comments

[veijukka]

Not as crystal clear a picture, but similar scenery...

[fireceremony]

That is a lovely landscape! So clear and open and with lots of nice water.

Do you go there often? Is it cold there?

[veijukka]

I've been there a few times...even been camping there. It's a beautiful place in the springtime...the photo doesn't quite do it justice. It's actually an artificial reservoir. The beaches are pebbly and the water cold. The wind blows in from the west and either cuts right through you or makes you feel like flying.

I was just really struck by how similar the landscape is to the picture you posted. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a picture of the places I've been to that are even more similar.

Where is The Smoke...the first place on your list?

[fireceremony]

It looks like a pretty cold place, but very very beautiful. I can imagine the nights in that place are quiet and peaceful, if the cutting wind is low. :)

What places have you been to that are similar to Pangong Lake? Pangong lake is in the Himalayas, at very high altitude, hence the clear sky and water.

The Smoke is the old nick name for London, from the time when industry fogged the city. :) London is so great.

[veijukka]

All Nevada is high desert, although probably not Himalaya high. ;) Mono Lake looks something like that, only more moon-like. So does Pyramid Lake. I'll have to hunt down some of my camping photos from when I was out near some dry lake beds.

It took me a long time to appreciate the beauty of the desert. But now there's few things as starkly beautiful to my eyes, as dramatic to my imagination as the sorts of images as the one you posted. Much as I love my mountain lake home, with its heavy forests and deep homes, I also love the desert.

Like in the movie Lawrence of Arabia, when he's asked why he loves the desert: It's clean.

Here's a typical Nevada landscape:

[fireceremony]

It really looks like the Himalays though, even if it doesn't have as high peaks. And it really looks amazingly lovely!

I've heard about the Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert, and it sounds quite strenous to bring all your water to stay there. But it could definitely be worth being at the outskirts of the desert for a few days.

Is the picture from Black Rock Desert?

I can understand that it took a long time to appreciate the desert when you grew up with lakes and forests. The arid landscape really is stark and hides nothing.

Now I have to add the Nevadan desert to the list of places to see. :)