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Collection of images and literary suggestions


"I am Darrel Standing. Very soon they will come to get me to hang me. In the meantime, in these pages I will express my opinion by writing about different times and places."

from the incipit of The Tramp of the Stars by Jack London 



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This page is the site's compass, a collection of the latest articles published in chronological order from all sections, to navigate through the latest news.


In the suggestion of the night that comes with great strides, while rivers of fog flow from one valley to another, in this case from the Val Sporzana to the small valley of the Vizzana stream, a pack of wolves howled wildly in the darkness of the wood below, while I took this photograph. When we say "night of wolves",...

Finally my beloved fogs are back, those cold and impalpable seas that flood our valleys, transforming the mountains into improbable islands.

L'essere creato, adorno del raggio battesimale, in tempi dei quali noi soli conserviamo la memoria, planava nello splendore su ali di gloria. Tutto era canto, incenso, fiamma, splendore. L'essere errava, ala d'oro, fiamma abbagliante.E di tutti i profumi a volta a volta era l'ospite. Tutto nuotava, tutto volava.

A 360° spherical photograph on the train from Parma to Pontremoli, taken one evening after returning from work. The little bike you see in the picture is mine!

The photographic story of a beautiful day spent along a secondary railway line, in the heart of the Po Valley. A historic steam-powered train runs along the stretch from Belgioioso and Codogno, in the Lodi area. The locomotive is a 625, called "Miss" due to its relatively compact size and graceful lines.

Don't be afraid to offer your body and your soul to the forces of Nature.

Sep 29

Cosmos

the stones, the mountains, the trees, the flowers, the herbs, the stars ...

This flame arises spontaneously on the slopes of Mount Busca, in Romagna, in a place perhaps not surprisingly called "Inferno", fed by a natural source of gas that escapes from the subsoil. The phenomenon is famous and known as "the smallest volcano in the world".

Ionesco diceva che è nell'irreale che affondano le radici del reale. Presumo che la maggior parte delle persone cerchi un senso all'assurdo dell'esistenza nella razionalità e nell'ordine, nella regola e nella forma. Il problema è che, così facendo, si determina uno scarto con la natura stessa dell'Universo che, per dirla alla Bergson, presenta un...

The circle, perfect shape, female shape, since the dawn of humanity symbol of harmony, balance and cyclicality, like an umbilical cord deeply binds our being with the cycles of nature, life, the female world and the moon, whose shape it remembers.

Jul 10

Colors

"All the colors of the world would not be enough,

A beautiful view of Val Mozzola and, in succession, of Val Taro and Val Baganza (Parmesan apennine), taken from the slopes of Monte Grosso, whose shadow hangs over the surrounding landscape like a curtain, which closes the scene as the hour lingers.

Forse ti stai perdendo il vivere ... Maybe you are missing out on living ...

Questo particolare periodo storico che stiamo vivendo, soprattutto per generazioni come le nostre che non hanno mai vissuto situazioni drammatiche come guerre, dittature, carestie o pestilenze, ci offre, tra i tanti problemi, anche due grandi opportunità: la prima è quella di far cadere le maschere, la seconda è una lezione interiore, quella di...

Here is a beautiful example of the transformative magic of nature. This small underwater monster, about a centimeter and a half in size, is an Ephemeroptera Nymph, and the very name of nymph already hints at a magical world, where the boundaries between worlds and forms are more labile and permeable than we can imagine. to imagine.

The beautiful emerald-colored lake of the Val Cogena, near Belforte, now only a good memory, in an old slightly faded slide.


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