Glimpses 驚豔

Broto 布羅托

Professor Hui Cheuk Kuen, Desmond (許焯權教授)

I was travelling with my family in the Pyrenees Mountain in Northern Spain in one summer. One day we were hurrying to arrive at our booked lodging in Broto from Andorra before nightfall. This was a popular vacation area near the National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido (a beautiful name itself which means ‘lost mountain’) and I had enjoyed its view driving through the valleys in sunset. When we finally got to the hostel, it was already dark and we managed to check in our room with the concierge speaking only in Aragonese Spanish. I woke up early next morning to venture out for a painting spot and found myself immersing in a fresh green garden with warm sunlight shining from behind our big stone hostel. In front of me was this view of a mountain covered by yellowish orange flowers with a vast plain of meadows littered with small stone houses. From a distance, I could hear the ringing of the famous Pyrenees cowbells from the grazing cattle…

有一年暑假我和家人在西班牙北部比利牛斯山脈旅行，有一天行程是要天黑前從安道爾趕到奧爾德薩和佩爾迪多山國家公園附近的布羅托，因為我們在那裡訂了當晚的旅館。從國家公園的名字“迷失的山巒”便知道這一帶是旅遊的熱點，我在黃昏暮色的山谷中穿梭駕駛，可以欣賞到迷人的山景。當我們抵達旅館時，夜幕已開始低垂，匆匆與只會說阿拉貢西班牙語的掌櫃辦好入住的手續便到房間休息了。第二天一早起來便到戶外找寫生的景點，欣然發現自己置身於翠綠的庭院，和暖的陽光從我們所住的巨大的石構建築後照耀過來。我眼前所見的是一座在山巔長滿橙黃花卉的山脊，前面是一片綠草如茵的平原，還有零星散佈的小石屋。遠處傳來比利牛斯山上著名的牛鈴搖聲...

December 7, 2017

Asín de Broto, Spain

Multicolored

Watercolors