Saturday, November 18, 2006

Mt. Argeus




I mentioned it in the first post, and found a photo.

Of course, you have to be there in the still, cool air and the silence (no planes ever go overhead) at dawn or sunset, and you have to know that this whole strange and gorgeous region comes from the eroded lava from Argeus and two other volcanic mountains that aren't visible, creating not only an astounding landscape but a special kind of cave that creates an unusual citrus storage business in this town (more of that later), and a special kind of 3-volcano soil, incredibly rich, thought to create berries with a kind of sugar a diabetic can safely consume, and home to a thousand tiny vegetable gardens and bee hives, stuck off in odd places, down strange paths, under cliffs, and over crevices, with tiny, sparkling springs coming up from hidden rivers under your feet.

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