Sorry for such a boring blog post yesterday. I broke my own little rule of 'if ye don't feel like writing your blog, then don't'.
Not today though - today was a 'wow' day for anybody who's mad about landscapes and far horizons. We decided to take a hike (from the car-park) to the Bremmer Kreuz - the cross up on the Calmont slope that I mentioned the other day. It looked a bit rainy, but it didn't last and we had a nice little walk past a huge ploughed field then through the woods with oaks and pines. H was on the lookout for bears. As usual.
Anyhow after about a kilometre (we thought that it was an Irish one to start with - i.e. two kilometres) we came up to a slight slope and a little clearing in the trees.....
It really was a 'wow' view - I don't really like that word, but that's what it was. The photo doesn't do it justice at all, as it was overcast and you would need to be up there on a good day for a good photo - but you could see for miles and miles. Our village Ediger-Eller is there on the left by the railway bridge and there's a lovely little church and another Cross on the high ridge between the River.
(There are paintings of these on my website www.ramplingpaintings.com )
And that huge meander - that's a great meander that is. All the cultivated areas are grape-vines and the Calmont slope, which we were standing on top of when I took the photo, is the steepest vineyard in Europe...
The cross was lovely too - simple and peaceful - I can't understand why we never found it before, but I'm glad that we've found it now...
Just look at all that sky...
Naturally all this fresh air put me in a good mood for painting and I worked away on the detail on the gate...
So, till tomorrow.
Tschüss!
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