The summer pools

Little pearls of beauty

In these first rainy days of early September, summer, with its vivid colors, its intense lights and the scorching sun, already seem like a distant memory, yet it was just yesterday. Not even the time to sort out the shots taken in August, and we are already catapulted into autumn, time runs as they say, and the landscape runs with it.

I remember a conversation I had many years ago now, with a friend, about photography, and he told me he didn't like landscape photography because the landscape is monotonous and always the same, it never changes, while for him the valuable, interesting photographs were those that stopped changeable things in time. At the time I didn't know how to argue with these words, I was even hurt, being a great lover of the landscape myself, and yet now thinking about it carefully, looking at the photos taken over the years in the same places, I could argue not only with words, but also with photographs, demonstrating that the landscape also changes continuously, and not only for the obvious changing of the seasons, but also morphologically the landscape changes, that of the rivers then also changes rapidly in a very evident way, and those who frequent the river know very well that every year, after the winter and its floods, the landscape that we remembered last year, often no longer exists.

This small lake, of a beautiful emerald color is one of those puddles that form in the summer, when the river drops a lot in flow and many branches literally dry up, sometimes before drying up completely, they leave temporary small puddles that look like small miniature lakes, puddles that often dry up completely as the torrid days pass. This beautiful emerald-colored puddle was located this summer between Ghiare di Berceto and Roccamurata, on the horizon in fact stands the severe and unmistakable ophiolitic mass of the Groppo di Gorro.

Below are other small summer puddles taken in recent years in various parts of the Taro river:

The landscape may also be fixed and unchangeable in many places, for example the mountains that have been immobile for millennia, it may also be banal and extraneous to the course of human events, it may not have an intrinsic value for some people, but for me it will always have a great value: perceiving it as an extension of myself, as an externalization of my inner movements, as a stage on which my emotions are performed, I will never be able to do without it, just as I cannot do without air to breathe or water to quench my thirst, it is an inner necessity. And then with the landscape one dialogues internally, there is a continuous exchange of energies at a deep level, almost a symbiosis: my emotions influence my way of seeing the landscape, and the landscape in turn influences my emotions, in a dialogue in which subjective and objective often fade into each other, like two clouds that meet.

The beauty of the landscape remains an inestimable value for me, its research, exploration and contemplation are essential nourishment, like any other nutritional element.

Russian researcher Olga Samarina writes: "the human organism is an open system. It is immersed in the external environment and is forming it, at the same time. But it could form it even more, if it were aware of its true nature and had all the tools that a realized spirituality would give it. ... The creation and affirmation of an informational model of man would bring science and religion out of the deep crisis, allowing us to study all the multiple channels of exchange between man and the environment, at all levels." (*)

These are things that I have always thought, always perceived, for these reasons I believe it is important to surround ourselves with beauty and immerse ourselves in natural landscapes that are as pure and rich as possible. In this way we could dialogue and nourish ourselves deeply with energies and first-hand information, precious and essential for our health and our personal fulfillment.

Not respecting nature and defacing the landscape around us is like dirtying and spitting on the food we are going to eat! It is a simple question of logic and self-love. Respecting and protecting Nature is not so much not throwing rubbish on the ground or not tearing a flower, this is banality, protecting nature is understanding that the world is all a great cosmic breath that permeates and pervades us, and that we in turn pervade with our essence. Let us not let ourselves be contaminated by breathing stale air.

Do not feed on filth and ugliness, because we are what we eat, in every sense, even with our eyes! Look for the beauty and mystery around you, contemplate them, absorb them, guard them and protect them, you are yourself!

(*) Protect and heal your world by Olga Samarina - series Esoteric and Scientific Russia - Ediz. Psiche 2