Thursday, January 06, 2011

The mountains of Belledonne.


January 5, Saint-Ismier.

My mother's house sits in a deep valley between the Belledonne mountains, slow to rise and majestic in size, and the Chartreuse chain, which on this side look like a fortress wall and not much the tumultuous green desert where the Chartreux monks have been taking refuge since the eleventh century.

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