Swiss and Switzerland

Continuing the series,

I spent a few minutes together with this gray heron, sitting on a spillway where the Schüss River pours into Lac de Bienne. I like to think we were – together – quietly contemplating the temporary stillness of the universe. But most probably he was study intensely for stunned fish that fell over the spillway.

Continuing the series,

They recently built a shopping mall, hotel, and business center across from the Zurich airport (ZRH):

OK, with a little help from Lumina AI

OK, with a little help from Lumina AI

I am by no means a fancy watch person – but this place has a little showroom, open to the public, where you can see one example of every watch this place makes.  I literally spent 30 minutes looking at the watches – an absoluting amazing, amazing experience.  (Well, it was pleasant for me. Inside the showroom there was a woman and a man — working there — dressed impecabbly. I think it’s more than a showroom and you can actually buy watches there. Anyway, I was wearing a dirty old T-Shirt and shorts. They didn’t complain – probably a lot of ultra-affluent people such as myself dress the way that I do!  I keep some nice clothes in my Gulfstream IV for special occasions – but nothing beats comfort.)

Anyway, continuing the series,

Why is there a lunar lander in front of the building? Well, Omega is pretty proud that astronauts wore Omega watches to the Moon. If you ask me, that was 50 years ago – there is such a thing as milking a cow a bit too much. But having said that, once you buy a lunar landar there is no point in putting into a storeroom. And, it’s really cool to get up close and imagine what the astronauts felt like. So, good job Omega!

Continuing the series,

OK, with a little help from Lumina AI:

Normally most of my snaps are not heavily retouched, but this time I threw in a few effects from Lumina AI.  Just to be honest, the original snap looked like this:

Took this snap on a hill looking down on the town of Pieterlen, in Switzerland:

Continuing the series,

This is the seat of the Swiss government:

It is not the Chasseral itself, but up in the Jura mountains the little villages have banded together into some kind of branded region called the Chasseral.

If you squint you’ll a church!

I had a very intense bittersweet moment here, just as I was taking this snap. A big black crow came up to me – which crows very rarely do. Somehow we connected, albeit briefly, on that part of consciousness where man and crow overlap. After this spiritual bonding I tossed him a huge pecan nut from a bag I was carrying. Instead of enjoying it, he just carried it off to one of the bushes you see in this snap, and promptly buried it.  Did he truly think it was his nut – maybe a nut so good it could not be eaten today but best saved for a more festive time? Was he just showing me how much he cherished the nut, only to return to eat it after I left? Or . . . was he contributing to the foodstocks of all the crows in Le Locle – and if he was, would that somehow reduce the pleasure I took from this man/crow nutgiving gesture? Or rather, should I judge a community spirit like that to be both admirable as well as somewhat lacking in mankind?

What is worth mentioning now is that the famous science fiction writer Stephen Baxter has postulated that after the evolutionary fall of man, crows will ascend and become the dominant species. Maybe this little man/crow event today is a little evolutionary kick along that inevitable journey?