slow tv rocks
Rocks me to sleep, that is! But seriously, it's really nice to have on while sleeping. I find it much easier to return to sleep, and stay sleeping with the sound and light from a long quiet train ride. Similarly it's also delightful to stop and watch periodically in the house while otherwise engaged. Today it's on the large tv just playing quietly, a long train ride through norway. We can all stop and watch, like looking out the window on a train ride. Until one has seen the whole ride several times it won't seem the same view each time one stops to look awhile.
I'm noticing, curiously, that there seems to be a wildlife shortage in Norway's incredible landscape. It's so much like Canada that it's eerie, at times Ontario or Quebec, others like the rockies in BC, but if it were, you'd see innumerable sparrows and pigeons in the train stations, little twitty birds along the shrubbery to the side, water fowl using the nearby lakes and rivers, and soaring seagulls, hawks, eagles, ravens and/or crows would populate the sky. In the lovely wilderness lining the tracks we'd see deer, sheep, bear or elk, perhaps even moose or cats but they're much more shy. Here in Canada they do not flee the steel dragons and our trains are larger, louder, and smokier. They just stop and turn to look when the train goes by, conditioned to the steel behemoth that never leaves the rails and won't stop for mercy.
So I'm wondering, where's the Norwegian wild life? Is there less there in spite of obviously fertile wildnerness? The video is during the height of a lush summer, so the birds would be home. So where are they? I see at best a solitary bird fly past the camera once or twice at a station, but none in the field of view at any distance! not even signs that they're moving too fast mostly to show up on the ccd. I wonder, do Norwegians kill wildlife routinely enough to keep the numbers rare? Is the air foul and the water poisoned? Is the dark winter perhaps too cruel? yet that doesn't stop northern canada and the arctic from teeming with life in the height of the summer. Sometimes the sky can turn black from flocks of birds, but always there are actual flocks to be seen doing their thing.
I hope this new slow tv takes off because I'd love some train footage of places like India and China or even perhaps the orient express if it still exists? Of course, Canada needs to make one! I've seen some of the view from the rails in Canada including footage of the northern ontario tourist railroad. It is truly spectacular and nearly unique. Nearly, I say, because Norway is as lovely without question.
I'm noticing, curiously, that there seems to be a wildlife shortage in Norway's incredible landscape. It's so much like Canada that it's eerie, at times Ontario or Quebec, others like the rockies in BC, but if it were, you'd see innumerable sparrows and pigeons in the train stations, little twitty birds along the shrubbery to the side, water fowl using the nearby lakes and rivers, and soaring seagulls, hawks, eagles, ravens and/or crows would populate the sky. In the lovely wilderness lining the tracks we'd see deer, sheep, bear or elk, perhaps even moose or cats but they're much more shy. Here in Canada they do not flee the steel dragons and our trains are larger, louder, and smokier. They just stop and turn to look when the train goes by, conditioned to the steel behemoth that never leaves the rails and won't stop for mercy.
So I'm wondering, where's the Norwegian wild life? Is there less there in spite of obviously fertile wildnerness? The video is during the height of a lush summer, so the birds would be home. So where are they? I see at best a solitary bird fly past the camera once or twice at a station, but none in the field of view at any distance! not even signs that they're moving too fast mostly to show up on the ccd. I wonder, do Norwegians kill wildlife routinely enough to keep the numbers rare? Is the air foul and the water poisoned? Is the dark winter perhaps too cruel? yet that doesn't stop northern canada and the arctic from teeming with life in the height of the summer. Sometimes the sky can turn black from flocks of birds, but always there are actual flocks to be seen doing their thing.
I hope this new slow tv takes off because I'd love some train footage of places like India and China or even perhaps the orient express if it still exists? Of course, Canada needs to make one! I've seen some of the view from the rails in Canada including footage of the northern ontario tourist railroad. It is truly spectacular and nearly unique. Nearly, I say, because Norway is as lovely without question.