crystalline
A week ago I wrote you about Lagunillas lagoon. I just was there an hour and decided to walk following the highway in route to Santa Lucía city, this is in Lampa Province, Puno Region, in the highlands of the Peruvian Southeast at 4025 metres above sea level (13 205 feet) Usually foreigners, in special from Europe, suffer the high altitude, I born there so my case is the opposite, I suffer the heat and dense humidity of the coast XP. This is what I found:
Yellow fields and waterfalls with ice
last end
If you want to know what feels to be the last woman or man on Earth walk the highway in the highlands.
alphabet of circles
The lagoon was already an old memory.
bonded to the earth
sweet and tough home
stones and ice
In the photograph above you can see the summer in the highlands, it’s not hot, it’s cold, just not so much as in July when is winter. Even more you can see an ice block in the lower left of the waterfall upon a rock.
sit
hidden door to a hidden realm
After four hours walking I confess I felt tired. So much that I couldn’t notice the person above the hill seeing me. Can you see him/her? Here is a crop:
I can seee youu
But I was far from my goal so I keep moving my legs.
The Forgotten Red God in the Green Pastures
shadow in green frame
Then the landscape changed and I was in a wilder world of green pastures where live the wild vicuñas, pumas and tarucas (north Andean deer) I just could see a taruca but it ran so fast behind a hill so I couldn’t shot him with my camera (although my stomach asked me to change from hungry walker/photographer to a happy hunter)
it’s cold, come here
a cloud about to tickle the hill
Usually in Peru the rocks with peculiar shapes on hills are venerated and cared by communities since thousand of years. Fortunately this rock is virgin so there weren’t persons who could see me with distrust (they don’t want to understand that I visit places just because those places inspire me the desire to go) It was the end of the afternoon so I went quickly before the night when I should to walk next to the highway.
fracture
soft sun in the meadow of long shadows
cloud landing in solitary meadows
hideaout for a mushroom
blood requiem
grinders
If I remember well I think that presence of aluminum give that reddish tone to the rocks.
son of Atlas
red soldier in eternal watch
citadel of mythic ages
gelid blue and silent red
lines of light
And well, this is enough for today. Beyond these rocks I had to continue the highway, but I’ll post that final part in the next week if your patience is still with me ;-)
kiss (volcanic)
Qhapaq 