Sunday, March 15, 2009

Calories In Tooth Paste

Picturesque literary (historical and cultural dictionary Queyras)

the nineteenth century, the Alps are in vogue. The English aristocrats and the bourgeois Europe are to become disciples of Rousseau mountaineers, was it time for a trip, less for fresh air, healthy, invigorating nature of which has not yet been affected by the progress to enjoy the entertainment offered by the impressive mountains. They admire accidents terrain, gorges to unfathomable depths, the high cliffs that seem to touch the heavens, bubbling mountain streams and thundering. In a word, they look the picturesque, as only the high mountain and wilderness can bring. Queyras travelers of the nineteenth century and the first tourists, the peaks and chasms, parades and rocks terrifying, dark, fierce, arouse in the minds of citizens posed of terrified amazement. Here
as Henri Ferrand, traveler, photographer and writer in his spare time, the analysis in 1909 quaint Combe Guil:
"The picturesque is a happy combination of three elements of beauty: the woods, rocks and water, and it is because it combines the most varied that evokes a Combe if printing high degree picturesque. "

Where travelers nineteenth and twentieth s, eager for thrills, see only "elements of beauty," the citizen Bonnaire, who was prefect of the Hautes-Alpes and presenting himself as an enlightened man anxious to improve the living standards of mountain, saw in 1801 (before the writers are not romantic fashion journey in the Alps) mountains that frightened him: "The department of Hautes-Alpes, bristling with rocks, glaciers, cut by a multitude of torrents and precipices, the eye does nothing repulsive: it is difficult to conceive that men could be determined to fix their homes in these deep valleys and narrow that the sun seemed to illuminate and regret that, subject to all the rigors of a harsh climate and varying hardly compensate the farmer for his advances and his sweat. "

What differences between these two visions of the mountain! Even the authors do not always Queyrassins to steer clear of fads or too dominant and succumb to the excitement of the wild beauty of their mountains, making their own quaint and frightening vision which is transmitted by travelers. Gen. William yields to magnificent picturesque: "When the traveler goes back Gorges du Guil, he defends himself against a hard chest tightness, anxiety even, between gigantic cliffs that dominate both sides and seem ready to 1'écraser their mass. Even Tivollier
Jean, born in Fontgillarde, succumbs to this picturesque: "We follow the curves of the cove where the rocks Guil runs a dizzy depth; one can not repress a shudder when we look at the abyss" . Or: "A striking impression you hugged in front of such grand and primitive one feels overwhelmed by these walls titanic echo with the sound of the Guil awakens in solitude; vies with admiration and fear this show is an unforgettable character. " Or: "The ravines become angry dragons cut the road and intercepted by heaps of earth, stones and rocks."

Queyras, these lovers of the picturesque do not see or do not know see the pastures, meadows mown, smiling landscapes shaped by human hands. They do not see what belongs to an ancient culture, they see the rocks, waterfalls, cliffs, peaks, precipices, anything which raises strong feelings, all that impressive, but what makes exclaim and marvel, all that frightening. Not seeing them, they do not admire the beauty. Yet it is these landscapes that are the specifics of Queyras, these mountains cultivated, irrigated, shaped over millennia by the work of people, landscapes that are little quaint, but oh so poignant, especially as the slow disappearance of 'agro-pastoral economy could make them forever to nature.

Friday, February 27, 2009

How Many Calories Are In Pad Thai

Aim a little balance in this golden rooster in full song in Cameroon!

Coq caught live by Marie-Corinne Devilliers in a village in Cameroon.
The Golden Rooster, delicate posture of the sequence of Yang style tai chi, the only movement made on stiff leg without kicking leg after another.
Seeking photo of a snake that crawls, a white crane spreads its wings, a girl threw her shuttle to the four corners of the universe ... for the fans!

Friday, February 13, 2009

Suede Shoe Cleaner And Sealer

Landscapes Queyras and evolution (Historical Dictionary of Cultural and Queyras)

These are men who are landscapes. As the business changes, also changing the landscape. The main activity today is tourism, the landscape is shaped by this activity. In the villages of valley bottoms, the most intensively used lands are hayfields and ski resorts, the slopes facing south near urbanized, ski areas lie on the faces west or north beyond , the space is used extensively logging, trail herds in the pastures; summer use trails. The soil is left in the terraces of south-facing slope and in isolated pastures. Tourism is seasonal. In winter, it is the valley bottoms and slopes equipped with lifts that are used in summer, trails, remote natural sites. In Upper Guil, there are two types of landscapes: one that is shaped by tourism, Shelter and needles, and a protected environment area, Ristolas. The areas most humanized are also less structured and more visually degraded those remote villages are untouched by development and structured.

Three factors explain the evolution of landscapes: the degeneration of the economy agro-forestry-pastoral population exodus, the development of tourism. To realize one can distinguish four stages schematically.

In 1800, dominates the agro-forestry-pastoral. Vegetation sprawls along the altitude and exposure. On southerly, land in the valley and around the hamlets inhabited continuously cultivated (rye, barley or oats, potatoes): above lie the hayfields and pastures. On Ubac, from bottom to top, are staged hayfields, forests, pastures. Intense exchanges are on the road, those passes to the Piedmont and that of Combe.

In 1850, the trade is by road to areas where livestock with dairy products come from the Queyras competition. This is the opposite end of transhumance and summering Italians and the beginning of permanent emigration. With fruit, profits from the processing of milk left in the Queyras. The hamlets are becoming summering habitats and the population is concentrated in the towns.

In 1900, the population has halved. Queyras opens on areas complementary but not competing. The milk is collected by large dairies, Nestlé Gap, and the profits of its transformation is no longer allocated Queyrassins. Provence transhumant flocks. Beginning of tourism. The landscape is changing gradually. Hamlets adrets are slowly abandoned. Ubacs on the forest extends into the valley bottoms to the detriment of hayfields.

In 1980, tourism became the main activity. Queyras's economy depends on cities. Collar workers found an interest, but only in summer tourism. On southerly, cultivated fields have virtually disappeared and the area of hayfields was strongly reduced. The hamlets are no longer inhabited by summer tourists. The forest grows at the expense of high altitude pastures. On Ubac, the forest stretches to the detriment of the hayfields of the valley. The exchanges are by Combe and was also by the collar and Izoard Agnel.

In a century and a half, the traditional habitat has disappeared, or because the houses are falling apart, that is, converted the buildings have changed function: they are no longer firm, but the residences. Queyras moved from intensive farming to extensive farming endangered and an almost complete autarky to complete dependence vis-à-vis the outside. Without farmers, the landscape has changed. The patchwork of fields and hayfields that characterized disappeared in favor of the moors. The contours become blurred; forests being over grazed, the undergrowth being replenished. The larch is struggling to regenerate itself is challenged by spruce and stone pine, ancient cultures are replaced on southerly by dry grasslands and heathlands juniper, the hayfields are gradually colonized by forest; abandoned channel causes a change in flora and development of plants that merely low soil moist pastures are colonized by forest on the slopes that were once devoid of trees.