Category Archives: mountains, flowers, landscapes

lamledra 3, the botanical theatre on Vault beach

Posted on August 2, 2016 by jonathan trustram

see also: At Lamledra and at Lamledra (2) a few notes: there’s a botanical theatre down on the beach. the stage is a scoop in the cliff  made by landslips, protected near the edge by two dead looking thickety blackthorns, like a half … Continue reading →

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in the Peloponnese 3, Vaidenitsa

Posted on June 28, 2016 by jonathan trustram

   Torridon Since last summer I’ve trampled bracken in a couple of new places, in Torridon and in the Peloponnese. By the shore of Loch Torridon Aran, a crofter (and our landlord) has burnt off the heather scrub and some … Continue reading →

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Anavriti (in the Peloponnese again)

Posted on May 22, 2016 by jonathan trustram

    (My first visit to the village, in April) Anavriti lies at about 750 metres on the east side of the Taygetos mountains, which run north-south along the central of the three fingers of the southern Peloponnese. These sentences … Continue reading →

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in the Peloponnese

Posted on May 14, 2016 by jonathan trustram

This little picture shows the forest fires that burnt in the Peloponnese and near Athens in August 2007. Some of the plumes of smoke are a hundred miles long. I looked it up when I came back, after seeing miles … Continue reading →

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at Lamledra (2) – erosion

Posted on April 11, 2016 by jonathan trustram

see also! At Lamledra    lamledra 3   “In German lingers an old word, Ortsbewustung, designating the bewildering or wildering of a once-maintained, ordered, loved place. In English, bewilderment is a new term, traceable to about 1620. From its beginning it connoted … Continue reading →

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footnote to an easy climb

Posted on February 9, 2016 by jonathan trustram

two photos of a fabulous flower that I haven’t seen, so I got the images from the web. I was so close, or I thought I was. I’ll tell the story later. (http://www.actaplantarum.org/floraitaliae)   They say: ‘specie estremamente rara a … Continue reading →

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an easy climb to Crna Prst in July, 2014

Posted on February 7, 2016 by jonathan trustram

– made easier because I took a taxi from Stara Fuzina, beside the lake at Bohinj, up to the end of the road, just below the abandoned skiing station. I’m going to get some help to  put all this in … Continue reading →

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A longer walk

Posted on December 16, 2015 by jonathan trustram

Next day I walked back down through the forest to the valley. Before I left the big party of young Italians from an alpine club set out. Deterred from the long high walk they  had planned by the weather, they had … Continue reading →

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a short walk in the Velo Polje, Vodnikov Dom again

Posted on December 15, 2015 by jonathan trustram

I was thinking about different ways of seeing Cornwall (see ‘at Lamledra’), and then a strange place in Slovenia (see ‘at Vodnikov Dom’). If you don’t like plants, look away now. The time is early July. In fact it was … Continue reading →

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in the garden, blue tits

Posted on December 8, 2015 by jonathan trustram

As part of a project to stop my brain from turning into a stony mush I have just calculated that in the last nine months the birds in the garden have consumed a quantity of sunflower seeds equal to the … Continue reading →

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