This is a view which one might see while doing the Milford Track.
It looks so serene.
The sky and its reflection in water has always been my favorite.
Please enjoy 🙂
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Lovely photograph! — rosie
Nice to hear from you, Rosie!
My favorite, too.
Thank you!
I love it too. I really enjoy any defections on the water. When I was in a few of the water towns near Suzhou, I managed to get a lot of the building reflections. Very nice. Your photo is beautiful.
I love the Suzhou gardens and waterways too!
Now that’s a beauty.
Thank you!
Such a beautiful photo – the reflections are great.
Glad that you like the picture!
Reminds me of when we walked the Milford Track in 1970, shortly after we were married. I do hope it is still as unspoiled. We stayed in dormitory accommodation with separate male and female dorms. The clouds lifted as we came into Milford and we saw Mitre Peak. That evening we had a cheery bake-out on the beach with Maori fishermen. I love your blog.
Glad that it reminds you of fond memories!
You are quite right. I hadn’t picked up on the sky’s reflection in the water
Sometimes, the reflection is more beautiful than the subject itself.
True. Do you know the words: “ba gua”? Not too sure of the phonetics.
Bagua physically means an eight sided, but have a deeper meaning in Daoist. Is that what you are thinking of?
Chinese mirror? (My correspondent speaks Hokkien)
Usually there are three words for the Ba gua mirror – the word mirror is missed out. It is an octagonal mirror with feng shui significance. The two words can have a deep feng shui, Taoist or Daoist meaning.
Interesting. I will probe deeper into it. Thank you. (xie xie?)
Please see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua
Xie xie is thank you, you got it!
Looked it up. It would probably take a lifetime to… begin to understand it? 🙂 As a firm believer that language shapes the thought and not the opposite (see sentence construction in German for instance) I wonder if the chinese ideogram writing has not been determinant in shaping those concepts. You cant’ do it (or at least the same way) with an alphabetical language…
xie xie again.
Chinese characters are based on pictures whereas many languages are based on sounds which I think is the major difference!
Definitely.
🙂