Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently:
♦ A couple weeks ago, I ran across a re-posted link on mental floss about Graun, Italy’s most famous drowned town, and I was struck both by the story itself and by the accompanying images. In fact, I had planned to post about Graun then, but I ran out of room in that week’s blog. The drowned town fascinates me, evoking as it does several other drowned cities in myth and legend, like the Breton city of Ys. Graun was flooded in 1950 to create a lake that would help power a hydroelectric plant, which was never built. All that’s left above water of Graun is the bell tower of its 14th-century church, which, when the lake freezes in winter, people can visit on foot. Here’s one of the images of Graun from the mental floss article that caught my attention:
The lake in winter
And then, on two separate occasions last week, I saw another image of Graun’s lonely chuch tower that I couldn’t resist posting. The greenness of the water gives the photo a dreamy quality that I like terribly. Via.
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Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently:
