tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post5733139945341263689..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Road of the Solar Wind, 8: White knuckles at the Phare d'EckmühlLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-65252865041182227062011-06-04T07:36:49.307+02:002011-06-04T07:36:49.307+02:00Breathtaking. Literally.Breathtaking. Literally.Dickhttp://patteran.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-71220168035406536012011-06-03T00:45:50.573+02:002011-06-03T00:45:50.573+02:00What beautiful vertigo!
This is a stunning collag...What beautiful vertigo!<br /><br />This is a stunning collage, Lucy. I was going to make exactly the same point as Zephyr about the shell resemblance. I like your toy car, too.Beehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375981493145612394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-57719760300538241922011-05-30T19:07:13.953+02:002011-05-30T19:07:13.953+02:00As usual I got here late. And since I always want ...As usual I got here late. And since I always want to say the obvious, someone has already mentioned how like a lovely nautilus the spiral stair looks in your beautiful photos.<br /><br />As to the umlaut, I wish I knew how to make one with a computer.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04979547096244105508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-50408024830839327302011-05-30T18:36:56.409+02:002011-05-30T18:36:56.409+02:00I join with Alison in my love for the idea of you ...I join with Alison in my love for the idea of you on one long jaunt forever. The fact you live in France ever delights me and I love your photos which show this to us all.<br /><br />You know of course, someone has to do it. Someone has to take your journeys.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-89898919893484911022011-05-30T16:13:55.221+02:002011-05-30T16:13:55.221+02:00Lucy, thank you for leaving that riotous link! How...Lucy, thank you for leaving that riotous link! How utterly silly!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-85186026529886351852011-05-30T14:58:13.579+02:002011-05-30T14:58:13.579+02:00Oh, reading this takes me back to the Duomo, creep...Oh, reading this takes me back to the Duomo, creeping up those last few spirals and then looking down. Argh! Thank you for this lovely series of travel posts.<br /><br />(My favorite line of this one: "This blog seems rather to give the impression that my life is just one long jaunt, which isn't quite the case, but I don't do so badly.")<br /><br />- AlisonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-52883977614335409372011-05-30T09:08:53.316+02:002011-05-30T09:08:53.316+02:00Yes, I too was surprised about the unlaut. So punc...Yes, I too was surprised about the unlaut. So punctilious about their own language the French are frequently somewhat cavalier about others'. Hence the famous German racing driver: Chou-ma-aire. Photos often betray steep gradients and great heights but the montage of spiral staircase shots, viewed as a whole, communicates vertigo perfectly. Don't forget to visit the scene of the Damascene techno-moment when in Wiltshire.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-92231087869879364682011-05-29T21:42:52.717+02:002011-05-29T21:42:52.717+02:00I finally figured it out. The secret seems to be...I finally figured it out. The secret seems to be: keep your link short.<br /><br />;-)YourFireAnthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03428838843235292696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-91304921989618113762011-05-29T21:08:42.135+02:002011-05-29T21:08:42.135+02:00Sorry, T, you crept in there! Not to worry, wonder...Sorry, T, you crept in there! Not to worry, wonderful Google Chrome supplies an automatic link with a right click anyway!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-82803460201962858602011-05-29T21:07:16.426+02:002011-05-29T21:07:16.426+02:00Thanks all, welcome Viv, welcome back Setu, welcom...Thanks all, welcome Viv, welcome back Setu, welcome news FireAnt!<br /><br />Regarding the Germanic name and umlaut, it was named after a general,Louis Nicolas Davout, who was called the 'Prince of Eckmühl' after winning the Battle of Eckmühl in the Napoleonic Wars, and whose daughter provided the money for the lighthouse. At the room at the top of it, there is a bronze of him, looking very paunchy and pompous in the clothes of the time, and a plaque about it! I've got a photo of that too, so perhaps I'll post it...Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-11290845038010368522011-05-29T21:06:13.648+02:002011-05-29T21:06:13.648+02:00Thanks for comment on my blog, though I can't ...Thanks for comment on my blog, though I can't get the link to insert.<br /><br />Bah!<br /><br /><br />;-)YourFireAnthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03428838843235292696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-47393930342199563942011-05-29T20:11:57.939+02:002011-05-29T20:11:57.939+02:00LOVE the spirally photos! We had a stamp here a ...LOVE the spirally photos! We had a stamp here a few years ago, of one of those kind of stairs in the Library of Congress. Lovely.<br /><br />Book is coming out sept. 10th. Cover looks great.<br /><br /> ;-)YourFireAnthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03428838843235292696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-72749921008853415722011-05-29T11:26:20.929+02:002011-05-29T11:26:20.929+02:00Lucy, I just found your marvellous blog via Earlyb...Lucy, I just found your marvellous blog via Earlybird of Mangetout, and read back several miles, a-goggle at the magnificence of your photographs. Two years ago we stayed in Finisterre, and if I couldn't live where I do, in Manche, that is where I would like to be. We visited that lighthouse, but having a dodgy heart, I didn't go up all those stairs!<br /><br />I am full of admiration for your collages, and shall take myself to Picasa to see what I can do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-83323652090750014112011-05-29T01:38:55.659+02:002011-05-29T01:38:55.659+02:00So, now you are ready for the annual summer race u...So, now you are ready for the annual summer race up the stairs of the Eckmühl lighthouse... There were lots of runners last year.<br />I'm sure you saw my family house from the top of the lighthouse. We used to hear the "Eckmühl cow" -a very strong Muuuuuuh- close by on misty days. Now the noise of the warning siren on the lighthouse is more civilised.Setuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696552533529329430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-1113087296491400202011-05-28T21:40:32.802+02:002011-05-28T21:40:32.802+02:00not too keen on heights myself...worth it for your...not too keen on heights myself...worth it for your photos though. Lets go and explore some nice flat places when the work dies down.<br />But then, oh no, there might be quicksand!Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12211663940952195703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-41811100661434730752011-05-28T21:09:27.369+02:002011-05-28T21:09:27.369+02:00I love the knuckles in the middle enhancing the ve...I love the knuckles in the middle enhancing the vertiginous :-)rrhttp://www.twistedrib.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-86593413515742366992011-05-28T20:08:38.834+02:002011-05-28T20:08:38.834+02:00Nautilus dreams, for sure! Impossible not to think...Nautilus dreams, for sure! Impossible not to think of a chambered nautilus...<br /><br />(And Oliver Wendell Holmes's "lustrous coil"--"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul!")marly youmanshttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-26316844704413625052011-05-28T19:25:58.970+02:002011-05-28T19:25:58.970+02:00Oh, just gorgeous, but like Zephyr, this would def...Oh, just gorgeous, but like Zephyr, this would definitely give me an attack of vertigo!<br /><br />I'm curious about the umlaut in the name Eckmühl, as I did not think that is common in the French language.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-2272599477677101932011-05-28T18:25:09.084+02:002011-05-28T18:25:09.084+02:00Marvelous. I'm still marveling.Marvelous. I'm still marveling.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-7027044537761302652011-05-28T17:55:44.251+02:002011-05-28T17:55:44.251+02:00oops, omitted the image that gripped me: i could n...oops, omitted the image that gripped me: i could not shake the vision of seeing my cameras fall from my hands and down, down, down...and them me following, of course. And, i don't regret, not even for a moment, that i have no photos from the outing...the visuals are crisp and clear in my memory. Possible more vivid than most others!zephyrhttp://www.thegarden.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-51680539772609121032011-05-28T17:48:35.488+02:002011-05-28T17:48:35.488+02:00magical images, like being in a swirling shell (ch...magical images, like being in a swirling shell (chamber nautilus). <br /><br />i empathize with those white knuckles!On my last visit to the wild wild west of my childhood, my niece took me to a rarely visited spot along the Grand Canyon. As we approached the edge, my imagination gripped me and my feet stopped moving. Had to turn around and take my cameras back to the car, then try again. There were no small children with us--thank heavens--or i would have refused to let them out of the car!<br /><br />i finally crept to a large, flat rock about 10 feet from the edge--there were no guard rails of any sort, it was that remote--and could not get any closer.<br /><br />i would have clung to the railing in the light house, and probably kept my back against the wall at the top!zephyrhttp://www.thegarden.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.com