Sweden Photo Album

Traverse In Light (Sweden)

The settling serenity is that it’s lost the instant after it comes. What’s left is analog, elemental substance: brown bog grasses, hillocks, snowpatches, refracting droplets, stone.

Sweden Grey

Lost in a watercolor smear between hilltops and sky until every shard was just a tighter spiral of repetition to a grey singularity. Windblow enough to not be able to hear what’s said, but the cadence and tonal shape is enough, the absence of reference points and yet we’re still here.

Slovenia Journal Pt. 3

This southern central part of the country isn’t mountainous, but the hills come bright cymbal crashes to our tired legs again and again.

Slovenia Photo Album II

Italy Postcard

Today a second in Italy’s yellow argent temps, tracks through apricots or peaches, morning roadies “ciao!”, seems at every town we stop to fill up at the spigot or fountain.

Italy Postcard

Unmistakably Italy, the hilltops in every distance with a villa, spruce lined approaches, groves.

Slovenia Photo Album I

Slovenia Journal Pt. 2

A day with an end where you recall it and it doesn’t seem as if it could have been just one.

Slovenia Journal Pt. 1

Tiny gravel roads, sometimes one paved lane, single track double track, paths through crushed riverside rock. The plan is a nine day circuit round this half of the country, toes across the Austrian border and then later a thirty hours in Italy before crossing over again.

Return to Slovenia

Visited Slovenia a couple of years ago, fairytale mountain and castle peaks, the green of the near summer Alps. Enough to be persuaded of a return trip.

Greece Photo Album II

Back to Athens

Last days in Greece, a final circuitous up over crossing arc back west to Heraklion, then the ferry.

Greece Journal

Beauty and hills, water blue horizons. Mountains with clouds and weather up top. Home of the Homeric gods.

Crete Climbs

Ascend a small road from Paleochora into the mountainous interior, away from the sunny beach, away from the Libyan sea.