Posted in America, light, lovie, paragliding on Saturday, November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t there this year, but I haven’t forgotten
how, in the right wind, you soar up the slope
to join the jelly beans in the sky.
The launch site is a green and distant memory, mere patchwork
and the snowy mountains are all yours.
Afterward,
your feet on the ground as your wing falls slack,
you’ll never forget
the staircase of air
the [...]
Posted in America, Australia, England, art, family, friends, ice, leeds, light, norway, paragliding on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today the light was soft. Sunlight hazed through billowy clouds, gilding the edges of the harvested fields, getting caught in the golden trees that have already started losing their hair. English weather really. Most mornings, frost glitters on everything, and once the mist clears, the sky is blue as ice.
Quite a lot has happened in [...]
Posted in adventures, birthdays, halden, norway, ocean, paragliding, phd on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 | 8 Comments »
It will never be today again. Never. He would not, in all his life, make another discovery more shattering.
Randolph Stow, The Merry-go-round in the Sea
In the last few hours of being 29, the loss of my twenties felt like some kind of a death. When you are in your twenties you believe you will be [...]
Posted in Australia, adventures, art, austria, disasters, family, lovie, paragliding, seasons, trees on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I am in Austria. Very close to Switzerland. If you climb a mountain – or, with much less effort, take a chairlift – you can see into a lake that touches Austria, Germany, Switzerland. I am surrounded by improbable lushness: meadows peppered with dandelions, mountains swathed in patterned cloaks of dark and bright green, the [...]
Posted in france, monaco, paragliding, snow on Saturday, January 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We had the best flights today. We got high above launch, high enough to see the snowy mountains in the background, and we were up for more than two hours. We could have stayed up longer if we wanted. It was so much fun chasing the lift in thermals, zooming up up up like birds.
See [...]
Posted in france, monaco, ocean, paragliding on Friday, January 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
That’s me.
And there are the gliders zooming around the cliffs.
The view into Monaco.
The view towards the landing beach. The beach is long, but there are hazards. Picnicking families. Recently landed gliders. The sea. The cliffs. And, er, a small and thankfully very clean stream right in the middle of the beach. I landed right next [...]
Posted in light, lovie, monaco, paragliding on Thursday, January 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We flew in the new year today, through silky air above the blue peninsulas and patterned ocean (the dark reef, the cloudy whiteness near the shore). When the lift is good, the paragliders swarm.
Last night we sang and danced and jumped around outside the casino in central Monaco, to a seriously good Beatles cover-band, the [...]
Posted in france, ocean, paragliding on Thursday, October 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here are some photos of our two gorgeous flights last Sunday. (Yes, I realise not everyone is as obsessed with this as I am, but bear with me.) That’s the launch site. It’s covered in carpet and is smooth and beautiful. (You don’t want too many stones and twigs and things, as they get caught [...]
Posted in france, paragliding on Saturday, October 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
in a place where the sun still warms the skin. Don’t worry, my thesis is here too! M has a conference all week, and I intend to make spectacular progress editing my various chapters. Below is a rare photo of M coming in to land (all our Utah photos seem to be of me). We [...]
Posted in America, lovie, paragliding on Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We’re flying back to Norway tomorrow and I’m looking forward to getting stuck into my thesis again. I’ve had over twenty hours of airtime which has been brilliant. I’ve been working on keeping my wing stable in turbulent conditions, and practicing flying in strong and light winds. I seem to naturally fly higher than most [...]
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