Back in early September I took a week off of a busy schedule attending academic geology conferences and short courses to attend the Second Annual European Textile Forum—a conference designed for both academics and living history enthusiasts who are interested in historic textiles. As a long-time participant in historical recreation events who loves hand-sewing and is fascinated with ways in which fabric and other textiles are created I really enjoyed the chance to meet and mingle with others who also love the subject. As with the textile forum of the year before, I reveled in living in a historic setting—this time we were at the Archeoparc in the Neolithic, surrounded with tools found with Otzi, the Ice Man.
However, for me the wonderful people met and the sharing of information on any number of textile arts was only part of the joy in the week; the rest of the joy was the setting itself. The Senales valley is a place of beauty, and it was fun to get out and look at bit at the rocks. I so enjoyed my week there that I returned again in October when my mother was visiting and did some more exploring. Here are some of the highlights of the geology I saw in my explorations of this valley in the Italian Alps.
One of the cute little farms in the lower part of the valley:
And the near-by outcrop:
The church just downhill from the park (and some nice outcrop to the left):
Much of the rock of the part of the valley where we were staying is a lovely fine-grained schist:
In places the locals use the rock to form part of their storage sheds:
In other parts of the hiking trail up the valley it is just a pretty part of the landscape:
In places there are some lovely quartz boudins:
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