Alpine roses, July rain . . .
The Alps. For many
years, during June and the beginning of July,
I used to carefully cut and tie together little bundles of alpine roses and
sell them to tourists
visiting the mountains. It's about a two hour trek from the nearest road
to this uninhabited valley.
All one hears is the sound of rushing water; all one smells is the cinnamon
spice aroma of
the alpine roses (a kind of Rhododendron.) Hard to imagine a place so lost
in time, and
in the very center of Europe at that!
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