My Mountains, Hills, Valleys, Plateaus

Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements like lighting and weather conditions, and human elements like human activity and the built environment.

Life imitates the various geographical forms making up the earth's expanse. Like a landscape, there are highlands and lowlands...... plateaus and valleys in life shaped by the ebbing and flowing of events. The elements of earth, wind, fire, and water also help recreate the landforms as family, friendships, and other relations, whether smooth or strained, greatly influence our being. Places, possessions, professions, experiences are also important determinants of how our life will be sculptured in reaching our highest potentials or in being doomed to a life of damnation...... our lifescape.

And so it is with this blogger. From hereon, this new section, Lifescape, will chronicle my weekly journey as I try to reach my mountains while eventually settling for a hill or just cruising along a plateau while trying to avoid my valley of darkness..... sometimes, I can't or wouldn't........ It's actually those core-shakers which define my own lifescape and help make me be the person that I can be....

Be part of or witness the changing scenery of my life........

Landscape Etymology

The word landscape comes from the Dutch word landschap, from land (directly equivalent to the English word land) and the suffix -schap, corresponding to the English suffix "-ship".

Landscape, first recorded in 1598, was borrowed as a painters' term from Dutch during the 16th century, when Dutch artists were on the verge of becoming masters of the landscape genre. The Dutch word landschap had earlier meant simply 'region, tract of land' but had acquired the artistic sense, which it brought over into English, of 'a picture depicting scenery on land'.