Sometimes what can’t be seen, can be undoubtedly felt–welling up and out of the unknown.
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Tag Archives: Berner Oberland
Somebody
On a walk in the forest, you will always find somebody watching.
Trees Telling Forests Things
Can’t tell the forest from the trees. Or is it the other way around–can’t tell the trees from the forest. Can’t tell.
Can’t tell the trees from the trunk and branches.
Can’t tell the trunk and branches from the leaves.
Can’t tell the leaves from the needles and cones.
Can’t tell anything…I’m lost…and happy…don’t tell.
Don’t look too close
I’m coming to get you!
What a pair!
Oooooopps—more than a pair!
Elderberry
Sambucus nigra, 11June2010, 600meters above sea level, North facing slope, Berner Oberland, Switzerland.
Dig into this one. Elderberry ice cream. Elderberry cordial. Elderberry jam. And on it goes. Wait until ripe, if you haven’t already harvested the flowers. So light. Heavenly.
Making Civilization
I love to see an agricultural community in transition. Everything counts. Nothing is wasted.
People still remember that everything counts and, for security, nothing is wasted.
Hedge your bet
Prunus laurocerasus has become very popular as a hedge to secure privacy for people in the small gardens around the houses of the Bernese Highlands.
This plant is evergreen, takes to trimming, makes a nice tall, thick hedge, and has a light but pleasant fragrance in flower. Bees like it and birds like it.
But I have observed a huge amount of pollen gather on Lake Brienz while this plant is at and past its peak flowering.
Interesting no? Comments please?
600 m above sea level
Swiss Alps spring pastures
At 600 meters above sea level, early May in the Bernese Highlands, grassland pastures are full with first wild flowers. Imagine in the air, the fragrance of fresh green pasture spring.
Teach, Teaching, Taught
I like to share things about plants, gardens and landscape. Things that can enliven and inspire.
But this set of photos is only about sharing perception in what I think of as teaching.
Every day I have mountains in my face. These photos how some of them. In particular, these photos tell a story that is quite visually apparent in early spring.
Here are the stories or rather the lessons learned:
- Spring comes earlier at lower elevations than higher elevations.
- Higher elevations have conifer only forests. Lower elevations have deciduous only forests. The two forest types merge in the middle elevations.
- And the last image is a close up of the glorious electric lime green at this stage of spring growth.
Notice the green grasses in the lower elevations. Compare it to the brown yellow grasses at the higher elevations.
Darker green forest trees are conifers. Spring green forests are deciduous.
Electric lime green spring foliage on a mixture of deciduous trees.