Category Archives: mountains, flowers, landscapes

a story from the mountains, without flowers

Posted on November 21, 2017 by jonathan trustram

This is a story which I have often thought about writing but have never known how to, without making it a boring muddle, because it involves curiously mistaken identities which confused the people involved and still confuses the narrative. I … Continue reading →

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Provada!!

Posted on September 10, 2017 by jonathan trustram

This is a piece I’ve been struggling intermittently to write. There are two little stories you might want to read hidden away among thoughts on names and language and ear worms that you might not want to read. As I … Continue reading →

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the plant itself

Posted on August 24, 2017 by jonathan trustram

“Abies cephalonica Grecian fir. Large evergreen tree to 30m with a pyramidal crown and dark brown bark tinted with orange, becoming darker and fissured with age; twigs hairless and buds very sticky. Leaves needle-like, spreading, thick…. Mountain slopes. May-June. S. … Continue reading →

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in the Peloponnese again (Ziria, aka Kyllini)

Posted on July 23, 2017 by jonathan trustram

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Ziria – what a tasteful mountain!                                         Ziria or Kyllini, it has both names. The whitest mountain, and without snow: white … Continue reading →

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I’ve been busy gardening

Posted on March 22, 2017 by jonathan trustram

John Clare: Where last years leaves and weeds decay March violets are in blow I’d rake the rubbish all away And give them room to grow My favourite poem on gardens and gardening.  He’s not even in a garden, but … Continue reading →

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Moving on in the Gasterntal

Posted on February 25, 2017 by jonathan trustram

Just above Kandersteg in the Bernese Oberland which is easily reached by train, the river Kander comes out of a gorge. The first indication I had that anything untoward had happened was a sign warning that the path had been … Continue reading →

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at a full stop in the Gasterntal

Posted on February 22, 2017 by jonathan trustram

and how to go on? How to write on a subject about which I know next to nothing, but find myself drawn to? But first, one or two more deviations, diversions and prohibitions: 15. We moved to Cold Ashton, north … Continue reading →

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Deviations, Boundaries, Prohibitions, (revised)

Posted on January 22, 2017 by jonathan trustram

In the end I went back a long way, realising how much my walks and walking have been influenced by prohibitions. My mother used to tell the story of how when I was three, I took my little sister Judy … Continue reading →

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endemics

Posted on January 15, 2017 by jonathan trustram

A few words on the claim, the acclaim, the clamour for endemics. When we say that a disease is endemic, we simply mean established, I think, in a particular area. But when it is said that a plant is endemic … Continue reading →

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photos from Germany (hear the truth whoever speaks it)

Posted on October 23, 2016 by jonathan trustram

The Jewish college opposite the Jewish museum in Berlin. The quotation is from Maimonides, the Jewish philosopher whose fairly harmonious life in Muslim Andalucia has become a model for our times: The people of Berlin recently voted in a referendum … Continue reading →

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