For the last few years our apartment terrace has looked out onto the Dome de Miage glacier. During this time we’ve woken up to and gone to sleep to this one view. But I never tire of it, and it never fails to provide something new and beautiful in its own right.
Actually being at cloud level, or seeing the clouds form as moisture rises off of the trees and gathers around the base of the mountains provides a different perspective from which to see clouds and rain. Having lived in England for the majority of my life, I developed a state of mind that associated clouds with something negative and a lack of opportunity.
But out here, in the mountains, you come to realise that ‘bad weather’ isn’t actually bad. It’s an opportunity to see a different side of the mountains, that is no less beautiful, and to change how you view clouds and rain. These infinite possibilities and combinations in terms of the weather and how it interacts with the mountains mean that even subtle changes can provide hugely contrasting views in a landscape that you thought you knew.
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