When clouds are becoming mountains

One evening in Aulnoye-Aymeries near the Super U (a supermarket), it is sunset and the clouds are becoming to mountains, the photos is taken to the North-West where there are no mountains until another continent.... so it cannot be a reflection of mountains on the sky to here (fata morgana), but only some clouds which are looking like mountains; but what do you think? The snow at the top of the mountains of clouds seems to be realy or not?

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New mountains appearing at the horizon...

Yesterday when driving to Fourmies, there were something strange; some new mountains were rising at the horizon in the East!!! And this during thirty kilometers. I think there were clouds which looked at the horizon like mountains, or a special optical effect due to the clear iced sky which made the Ardennes coming nearer to us, although we never saw until this day the Ardennes, from which we are the first slopes, from the Avesnois. Or the Vosges coming nearer though a reflection in the sky but there are three hundred kilometers far, so I think it is not possible. Although I saw already the Alpes from the plain of Alsacia (four hundred kilometers far from here) at a distance of two hundred kilometers. Or they were a great earthquake in Belgium (it is the direction of Belgium) which made the Ardennes becoming suddenly higher! But nobody heard of it at radio or TV!!! I do not know what it was. Probably clouds.

But all was looking to be nearer yesterday. For example the moon on the way to home was very big in its first quater and flat on the back of its crescent, so that I thought it was not the moon but an UFO (my husband said : "No, no, it is the moon!"), but I was so afraid of the aspect of the moon, that I didn't stop to make a photo. The big red crescent had also its back turned to the earth. We say it is a reversed moon.

However, on the outward drive, I made photos, and although it was a drive I made a few years ago without fear, I find so many things getting strange on this way, that I am often frightened. I stopped my car in Sains-du-Nord to make these photos of the "new mountains". Thus the blue mountain ridge, you see in the background don't exist usually. It was very strange because there where a place on the blue ridge where you can see some meadows and they were during thirty kilometers at the same place. The road is going at this place to the South-East.

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Measures on the bird flight (french à vol d'oiseau)

Sains-du-Nord to the Vosges (region of the Donon with 1000m high) : 290km

Vosges (Riquewihr) to Berner Oberland (I saw already very well the Alps from Riquewihr at the East side of Vosges) : 180km (Berner Oberland unto 4000m high)

Some new mountains...

Her, probably the clouds, were making like new mountains at the horizon, and this during thirty kilometers. I asked myself if it were clouds or a "fata morgana" of other mountains like the Ardennes, reflecting on the iced sky. I stopped my car at a place where they were houses to make the photos.

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Clouds and light

A play of clouds, sun, light, shadow with autumnal vegetation.

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229. Shall you go to St James of Compostella ?

This path along the Sambre is leading here towards the South and from there you go a long time along the Sambre in the direction of Berlaimont and Landrecies. Then you have to take fied paths to St Quentin. From there to Paris, I do not know, because there is no guide book. And then you can go on the Compostela way of Tours to Spain... Also if you not believe in God, this is an historic way. Nothing to do with the romn road which is passing more on the East. And the roman road to Lutèce (Paris) was going at the West side of the forest of Mormal which I have to photograph before the beautiful autumn leaves are all fallen. On the sign-board you can see the way is only for pedestrians. The fishers like to fish along this way.

I took also the photo in Aymeries, near the church.

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