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A Terrifying Beauty

The upland regions of the UK are renowned for their fickle weather. They say that if you can’t see the mountain tops then it’s raining and ………………………………. if you can see the mountain tops, it’s going to rain.

 

But bad weather can be beautiful. Here, there is light in the heavy cloud and a feeble shaft of sunlight offers the hope of better weather. It’s beautiful and terrifying at the same time.

 

Whenever I see a sky like this I hear Wagner.

 

Try it for yourself.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYHehDaXCUs

 

Turn it up.

 

LOUD!!!

 

I think Wagner may have been looking at a sky such as this when he wrote the music. And if he did he certainly viewed it Large

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Uploaded on October 5, 2009