Very nice of you to come by. Thanks for reading. And I appreciate your comment.

You said “something distance yet close at the same time.” Being in Reine this past summer, that’s a good way of putting it. In Lofoten, everything seems so close. I got to take a mountain as personally as the boat I would be on, or the wave splashing against it. And the colors, right, the blue and all. It was fabulous. And the recluse I only heard of, she seems close to me.

Thanks again.

Bud

I didn’t know you wrote poetry, Bud. Amazing work And that picture…so blue and calm.

I enjoyed reading this, and thanks for sharing.

Thanks for coming by.

I did a little work that I would have put up at NC, but that forum seems gone now–and made decisions to keep a couple lines the way they were that had a few readers scratching their heads, like where visions fit together.

I have a Lake Tahoe theme on my desktop now. Several times, while trying to explain what the natural beauty of Reine is like, I would ask if they had been on Lake Tahoe. There are at least similar impressions while on waters of the lake and the fjord. Although differences are striking. A tourist’s tour of Lake Tahoe does not happen on the mail delivery boat to the remote corners, as with the fjord at Reine. Reine is quite the place–kept me off balance there, the way its beauty is everpresent.

Bud

I have a view of Reine on as my computer wallpaper… it never ceases to take my breath away, even after all these weeks.