I’m back home! I had a bumpy ride from FTF in Dallas back to Zurich, so not much sleep during the night. So instead risking to fall asleep while unpacking the luggage, what is the best to fight a jet lag? Going outside where my home is, soak the sun and take pictures! Spring time definitely arrived in Switzerland with blooming flowers and cherry, apple and pear trees. I have my friend Jim in Austin/Texas who has a marvelous garden I cannot compete with. But I have mother nature around me in larger scale ;-). So here we go with a collection of shots from today (click on pictures to see it in full size): Enjoy!
Blooming Tree
Taraxacum officinale
Crocus
Spring Flowers
Lotus (genus)
Spring Flowers (Caltha palustris)
Spring Flower
ing Flower (Tussilago)
Spring Flowers (Caltha palustris)
Spring Flower (Bellis perennis)
Spring Flowers (Caltha palustris)
Primula
Primula
Spring Flower
Blooming Tree
Blooming Tree
Blooming Tree
Blooming Tree
Blooming Tree
Blooming Tree
Blooming Tree
Blooming Tree
Blooming Tree
Blooming Tree
Blooming Tree
Upper Steinerberg Area
Blooming Tree
Blooming Tree
Upper Steinerberg Area
Upper Steinerberg Area
Spring Flowers
Primula
Spring Flowers (Caltha palustris)
Spring Flowers
Spring Flowers
Spring Flowers
Tree struck by Lightning
Spring Flowers (Crocus)
Spring Flowers (Crocus)
Spring Flowers
Taraxacum officinale
Spring Flowers
Spring Flower (Bellis perennis)
Distel (Carduus)
Taraxacum officinale
Spring Flowers
Spring Flower (Bellis perennis)
Happy Anti-Jet-Lagging 🙂
Very nice pics, Erich. I’ve always liked Crocus.
Taraxacum officinale looks like what we’d call a dandelion. A weed that people try to keep out of their lawns. My dad had a friend who made wine out of it. 🙂
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Yes, it is known as Dandelion too. We call it ‘Löwenzahn’, and usually I try to keep it out my garden too. Wine out of it? Interesting! I have used the young leafs as a spring salad, but wine sounds an interesting approach. We create a special honey out of the flowers too which tastes very nice.
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That means something like lion’s tooth?
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yes, that’s correct. I think it is because of the shape of the green leaves which have several tooths).
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Very nice pics, Erich. I can only enjoy via your pics. Hope that I will have chance to come to some places like that.
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I am envying so much that you live in such a natural and beautiful environment. Very nice shots.
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