I have just finished an Amazon KDP novella entitled Landscape Libretti and am now on a well-earned vacation in a country (Switzerland) where, as far as I can see, local people are proud of their heritage.
Especially in the agricultural villages at the ends of the roads in the Jungfrau Region where for centuries the local people have managed the forests and pastures in these inspiring Swiss Alp landscapes.
What happens in the brief moment…
…before you decide to take a picture of a beautiful flower?
What causes you to stop and look again?
This is exactly what Christopher Janus explored and found out in Tangier Gardens. Try it yourself @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
It is easy to connect with nature in landscape like this.
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Dancing? Dancing!
Landscape librettos
Even a thistle can have its attraction.
Later on if you get too close, you’ll get hurt.
But CJ did get too close… was he too close to the cannabis or the absinthe? Find out in Tangier Gardens.
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Just one of those days.
Nothing quite right.
Maybe tomorrow.
The flower beckoned but I could not capture the invitation.
And CJ, too, in his design study, almost got it right, but not quite, in Tangier Gardens.
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They take lives without mercy.
The closer you get to them the more diversified, dangerous and threatening the topography, forests, cliffs, ravines and rivulets become.
Mountains make clouds do things.
Under the forest cloak, the mysteries become all-consuming.
Then how do the mountains turn into something marvellous?
This is landscape.
And this is what Christopher Janus explores in Tangier Gardens.
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This photo with the foreground geranium detail, the middleground freshwater lake and the background village, forests and mountain clouds… They encapsulate the Swiss Alp landscape that endlessly inspires me each and every day. Makes writing stories like Tangier Gardens a thrill, a charm. Try the story @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
We had April showers and we found May flowers. Modest pleasures. But roses are so much more.
CJ was not so fortunate, but he did find transcendent pleasures in Tangier Gardens. Read a free Amazon sample of my novel–lots of plants, gardens and landscape adventures–via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv.
This is a landscape story—a beautiful family moment!
So what is going on here? A young couple is introducing their baby to one of their cows and recording it on camera. Their cow sports a headdress celebrating its return to the valley, home from pastures high up in the mountains—Alpine life.
Simple family pleasures… but only with work, work with the animals, work with the landscape, work with family—very hard work and the result? Beautiful.
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Mountains so alive with energy they breathe clouds—in and out… in and out…
Animating so many levels that I can sense… and so many more levels beyond my senses.
Remarkable solar energy exchanges stream through patches of blue sky to electrify the landscape.
With exuberant displays, creeks dance through fields and gush down mountain cliffs exploding with excess energy into bubbling mists of white foam… all the way down… down… down…
To the valley bottom where they join lively white rivers rushing over boulders, winding through steep mixed forests, chartreuse deciduous and deep dark green conifers, rubbing against each other and bursting with an exquisite energy I can feel, I can see, I can hear.
But I can sense the sadness in older people, the farmers, trudging about daily homestead activities burdened with melancholy memories how it was 70 years ago… compared to the invasive, fast moving trains, packed full of ‘bucket-list’ tourists racing on to their next destination before their vacation is over.
And alas, I too, am just one of those tourists… in Switzerland.
But CJ, in Tangier Gardens, Curious Tales, Orient Espresso and Dubai Sands, thought he wasn’t a tourist. Little did he know. Check it out @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
