Infinite Pampa (Canuelas)

Borges said about Pampa it was "the unique place in the world where God could walk well off...". The author of the imaginary "biography of Taedo Isodoro Cruz" (Companion of the imaginary one too "Martin Fierro" by José Hernàndez), had really never seen the plains of Siberia in spite of his many voyages . But it is true that in this hopelessly smooth vastness, no obstacle stand between the eye and the horizon.
Except perhaps for the lines of eucalypti which border the long straight lines of the roads which traverse this grass ocean. Except for the innumerable wind mills which draw water necessary to the horses criollos (*) or to the herds of “holanda-argentina”, the most widespread species of cows imported from Holland and Switzerland. Except also for the telephone pole on which come to perch one moment the “caranchos” (birds of prey), or the “horneros” which got into the habit of building their mud made nests on wires. No, that are not either the poor “pueblos” without bell-towers, the names of which betraying the origin of their founder, which could stop the blustering “Pampero” or the " Sudestada” above the “llanura”. The air is sharp there in winter, pure in summer in spite of the heat which crushes men and animals when the winds finished blowing. A clear, limpid, and contrasted light floods this place of melancholy where only fellows being content with little, can survive the time which passes, slowly, invariably, identical at each hour, each day, each season : they are called the “gauchos” (*).

Pictures taken on the lands of the estancia La Figura
(*) articles to be published