“Are you asking me? …is that some kind of existential ‘look-in-the-mirror’ trick?”
“Are you going to take the trip or not?”
What’s inside?
Tag Archives: swiss alps
Can’t we just all get along?
Stop pushing me!
What a pair!
Oooooopps—more than a pair!
The promise is yet to come
Corylus avellana, 600 meters above sea level, 12June2010, North facing slope, Bernese Highlands, Swiss Alps.
Hazelnut or filbert. At the risk of sounding too much like an oldtimer…
Once upon a time, before European mass produced chocolate became common in the United States, if you wanted chocolate with nuts, you had primarily chocolate with peanuts. Then if you took the big voyage to Europe and tried to find chocolate and peanuts…impossible. Chocolate and nuts in Europe meant chocolate and hazelnuts. Need I say mouth watering?
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.
Enzian Facing South
Found at approx 1600 meters above sea level in the
Swiss Alps, Bernese Highlands, Jungfrau Region
Gentiana acaulis
22May2018
Enzian Facing North
Found in Swiss Alps, Bernese Highlands, Jungfrau Region
Gentiana verna
22May2018
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.