I'm retired and living in North Yorkshire, where I walk as often as I can, write, volunteer, and travel as often as I can.
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32 thoughts on “Which are Taller …?”
Those %^$#@!! Pyrenees are taller!! I’ve climbed the buggers! 🙂 Mel
Well, when I say climbed, I mean slogged over the hills on the Camino Frances. That was my first real introduction to mountains….nothing like it in Aus! It was a shock!
I’ve been reading Rose Tremain’s ‘Restoration’ and early on the main character is taking painting lessons and the tutor explains that in a landscape the hills in the distance are lighter than the those nearer to the foreground. Well, I’d never noticed that or been told that as a fact before and then your photograph! Thank you. It is an absolute text book example of that phenomenon. You learn something new everyday.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
Those %^$#@!! Pyrenees are taller!! I’ve climbed the buggers! 🙂 Mel
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Oh, well done you! I’ve certainly done a lot of walking there, but climbing is a whole different thing.
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Well, when I say climbed, I mean slogged over the hills on the Camino Frances. That was my first real introduction to mountains….nothing like it in Aus! It was a shock!
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I feel your pain. Tough, isn’t it? But so worth it when you get to the top.
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So true. It was a life-changing adventure for me and it has seriously given me the walking bug!
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Well, it’s a blameless and economical hobby – apart from decent boots – and yes, a wonderful way of discovering the countryside.
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I like the way you think!! 🙂 Anyone who supports my walking addiction is a friend of mine!
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Hooray!
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That’s a tricky one!
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It is, isn’t it 😉 ?
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It has to be the blades of grass 🙂 🙂 I’d like to be lying on that patch of it.
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Oh yes! It’s so perfect there. Warm, yet refreshing too.
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Brilliant . . . if I was an ant that blade of glass would be my Pyrenees!
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Wouldn’t it just? Though you’d shin up in moments.
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that’s true!
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Blades of Grass.🤣
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Are you sure ;)?
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😅just joking.
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I guess I thought you were 😉
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Oh marvellous view!
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It was.
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Your imagination!
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🙂
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Very clever! Makes me wish I was lying back and taking in that view right now.
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Me too. Ah well, we can dream …
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Good question. Now, if you asked a mouse…
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Or a beetle …
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Ahhhh…my new favourite – the Ariege 🙂
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Good man!
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Well I am already battling to keep things in perspective …
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I’ve been reading Rose Tremain’s ‘Restoration’ and early on the main character is taking painting lessons and the tutor explains that in a landscape the hills in the distance are lighter than the those nearer to the foreground. Well, I’d never noticed that or been told that as a fact before and then your photograph! Thank you. It is an absolute text book example of that phenomenon. You learn something new everyday.
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It became clear in our Pyrenees years, where striking mountain and hillside views, layering into the distance, were part of life.
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