deva_sarasvati: Gerlinde is more curious today
deva_sarasvati: Sometimes I catch this out of the corner of my eye
deva_sarasvati: Italian pastoral
deva_sarasvati: The beginning of the Italian Alps
deva_sarasvati: Gah, the mountains, they are so goddamn picturesque!
deva_sarasvati: Also, would you like some villages nestled in the foothills?
deva_sarasvati: Church, with farmlands
deva_sarasvati: The trees are like moss up the rocks
deva_sarasvati: And then, suddenly
deva_sarasvati: FRENCH ALPS
deva_sarasvati: Some geologic fucking majesty
deva_sarasvati: A close up (for MK)
deva_sarasvati: One more close up, with orange lichen
deva_sarasvati: The scale, again, tricks you. That rock face is massive
deva_sarasvati: Hello, beautiful lines of uplift
deva_sarasvati: French mesa with farmland
deva_sarasvati: Can you tell how far back they go? How many layers there are?
deva_sarasvati: Three distinct distances: farm, green hill, bald massif
deva_sarasvati: AND NOW FOR A LITTLE WEATHER
deva_sarasvati: Vercors: first looks
deva_sarasvati: Rooftop in Vercors village
deva_sarasvati: Some sheeps (or moutons, if you prefer)
deva_sarasvati: Some of the crowd
deva_sarasvati: Moving Helsinki
deva_sarasvati: And now, moving Gerlinde
deva_sarasvati: Back feather closeup
deva_sarasvati: We totally drove straight up the mountain--with a manual transmission
deva_sarasvati: Hike to the release site
deva_sarasvati: Oh you know, just hanging out in Shangri-La
deva_sarasvati: bringing out the bird