Series: Path to Purgatorio

An Introduction. Part 2.

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Certainly at the summit, it felt heavenly. The flame trees in blossom, the call of birds, butterflies on the wing mid morning, fireflies on the wing at dusk. Pristine, whimsical, untrammeled. Dare I say sublime. I could look around and imagine a world before mankind exerted his toll.

Level 1. In the Beginning God Created the Earth
2013
Catalogue Number: PTP-001© Richard Mark Dobson

Level 1. Celestiality #1
2013
Catalogue Number: PTP-002 © Richard Mark Dobson

Then as I proceeded downhill, the first signs of mankind appeared just as the grassy path gave way to gravel. I would hear the bark of a dog, and then perhaps a little later the chime of a monk’s gong well before I actually caught site of the Taoist temple set back in among the trees. Up here in the higher reaches it seemed humanity still held a certain reverence for nature. For the simple life.

Level 3. Canine #2
2013
Catalogue Number: PTP-017 ©Richard Mark Dobson

Level 2. Flamboyant Tree
2013
Catalogue Number: PTP-010 ©Richard Mark Dobson

As I descended further down, now to the gravel section of the path, things began to change. High walls erected. Golden ornate gates locked…….

Level 5. Gated # 2
2013
Catalogue Number: PTP-031 ©Richard Mark Dobson

to be continued….

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