May 17, 2009
I need a visa for this vista
![[IMAGE] view from Mt. Constitution](/blog/blogpix/orcasview.jpg)
![[IMAGE] view from Mt. Constitution](/blog/blogpix/orcasview2.jpg)
…about the musicQuite a view.
One of the many joys of self employment is the ability to play hooky. On Friday we walked onto the ferry and chugged over to neighboring Orcas island, where friends picked us up at the landing. They took us to a beautiful spot we’d never seen, except from our own island: the peak of Mt. Constitution. 2400 feet up is actually quite a lot if everything else around you is far closer to sea level. Despite a little haze, it was spectacular to get a cartographer’s view of this entire area, from Canada to the mainland. I particularly love poring over the framed legends at lookout points such as this one, trying to exactly match up someone’s [not always exact] drawings of what’s in front of me. The expanse was awesome; I think my eyes needed a passport.
Glenn Buttkus said,
May 18, 2009 @ 5:34 am
Wish I could of had the patience to wait for your virtual reality show to load. It looks neat, and what a treat for you to “live” in an alternate reality. VISTA @ 1:35, with great violin licks by D’Andrea, almost give me chills and vertigo as I remember the last time my family and I climbed Mt. Constitution. Pretty hard to find a day without haze anymore. Thank God one can drive nearly to the top. I’m not much of a hiker these days. So those are Canadian isles we see off to the northish?
Glenn
Glenn Buttkus said,
May 21, 2009 @ 5:21 am
For some ungodly reason, the comments counter on the front end of this posting registers (0), and yet when I check I find my comment. Maybe I am only imagining
that I left a comment, some kind of Walter Mitty cyber daydream. I listened to VISTA again this morning. Great violin playing always stirs me up. The cello is my weepy indicator. The tears flow when just the right notes are elongated; like a conditioned response. Maybe that’s why in film scores they use strings to insure tear-jerking?
What are you feelings about strings and emotions?
Glenn
Alex Shapiro said,
May 23, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
Sorry for the late comment posting– my internet connection was spotty from my room in NYC this week and I just got back last night!
You can see the Coast Range of Canada when you look to the left from this spot, but I don’t believe they appear in those two particular photos, which are to the east and the southeast.
Strings and emotions? Absolutely– many say that strings are most like the human voice. For me, though, I’m a sap and every instrument– if well written for– is very emotional. Music gives a voice to all the things I can never figure out how to utter in words.
Mike said,
May 23, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
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