Butte in french is pretty much just a small hill.
E.g. At the site of the Battle of Waterloo is the monument 'Butte du Lion':
https://picasaweb.google.com/114216296452748950269/10February2012#5707536143868696658
jez
Ps - no, I didn't want to clone out the contrails!
On 17/05/2012, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Both very interesting shots. I'd never heard of the Sutter Buttes so
> had to look them up. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutter_Buttes> I've
> always considered a butte and a mesa as pretty much synonymous but I see
> that buttes are not necessarily flat topped.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 5/17/2012 1:43 AM, Moose wrote:
>> Those shots of Shasta reminded me of many more shots, both from the air
>> and in Montana that I hadn't really looked at.
>> It was only a couple of days after we returned that we headed off for a
>> month in New England, and innumerable more
>> images. :-)
>>
>> Here are a couple of possible interest. The first shows the new Eastern
>> span of the SF Bay Bridge with the next to last
>> preconstructed piece of roadbed being lifted into place. I could hardly
>> have asked for a better view.
>> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/Montana_2011/In_the_Air&image=IMG_2105oof40.jpg>
>>
>> The second is one of those reasons Californians don't 'get' endless
>> horizons. Right in the middle of the large,
>> generally flat Sacramento Valley are the Sutter Buttes. No big deal here,
>> they would be a famous feature in many parts
>> of the US.
>> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/Montana_2011/In_the_Air&image=IMG_2112croof60m.jpg>
>>
>> Airborne Moose
>>
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