tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post533901010679734611..comments2023-10-28T04:53:32.505-07:00Comments on View From The Northern Wall: Let Me Be, By The Tarnchristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-83363283043766102152009-01-06T12:03:00.000-08:002009-01-06T12:03:00.000-08:00We hiked up one of those moraine fields too, to a ...We hiked up one of those moraine fields too, to a pool beneath the glacier but I don't remember the name. Don't think it was Edith Cavell, but truly an alien landscape as you describe. I felt very at home there. ;-)robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-52543175781194608992009-01-06T09:02:00.000-08:002009-01-06T09:02:00.000-08:00Robin, of course it is - it's where I wrote that T...Robin, of course it is - it's where I wrote that Tarn poem. But I was thinking about a much smaller pond sized tarn, just like the etymology suggests and that's what is at Edith Cavell.<BR/><BR/>The approach is perhaps the strangest landscape I have ever been in, almost like a strip mine, but old, and with forest trying to come back, nothing quite level, hilly higher than 8-10 feet, but averaging to a gentle up slope back toward the final moraines and the cirque behind, with the Angel Glacier above. The water an even milkier blue than your photo. The landscape was not at all majestic, not like your photo, but devastated, a war zone between forest and ice, not yet enough actual soil for all the rock and gravel and sand.<BR/><BR/>My dominant emotion, oddly was sadness for the ice losing itself like that. The ice retreat is ancient, older than this century anyway.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-26802328089769081952009-01-05T22:33:00.000-08:002009-01-05T22:33:00.000-08:00Banff, Jasper - the foothills of heaven. Here's on...Banff, Jasper - the foothills of heaven. Here's one of those <A HREF="http://robinstarfish.blogspot.com/2008/10/bell-bottom-blue.html" REL="nofollow">tarns</A> of ineffable blue.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.com