Evening Clouds Panorama (click to enlarge)
Evening Clouds
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Category Archives: Pictures
Föhn is here!
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Fall time is here, and frequently in this time we can have a Föhn wind situation:
Föhn Clouds
Lakeside View
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It was a very warm (32°C) and beautiful summer Sunday. Spent some time at the ‘house lake’. The picture shows a view over Lake Lauerz to my home village on the other side:
Lake View over Lake Lauerz (click to enlarge)
Far to the left the Rigi, with the Rossberg in the middle. On the left of the Rossberg is the rock slide area from 1806 (see “Hacking the Heating System for Cooling – Geothermal Drilling with extra Benefits“). On the right the Spiegelberg and then far to the right part of the Mythen.
Happy Laking 🙂
Sunday and Rain is Coming …
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It is Sunday morning, and the sun shines into the valley of Schwyz. It looks like it could be a beautiful Sunday, but the weather forecast predicts clouds and rain for the afternoon. So I make a panorama shot to the west to my home village and the Rigi mountain int the background. Rain is coming soon…
Talkessel Steinen (click to enlarge)
Happy Sundaying 🙂
Grand Prismatic Spring
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Grand Prismatic Spring (click to enlarge)
The Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest and one of the most brilliant of the many springs in Yellowstone. The temperature of the water is around 60°C. The yellow, orange and brown colors are caused by small heat-loving microorganisms, names thermophiles. The intense blue color in the center is because of the sunlight gets scattered by fine particles in the water. Simply beautiful!
Happy Heating 🙂
Hot Spring Colors
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I worked the past weekend and nights using the Freescale FRDM-K64F board with the colorful Adafruit NeoPixels (see “Tutorial: Adafruit WS2812B NeoPixels with the Freescale FRDM-K64F Board – Part 1: Hardware“). These RGB LEDs can create beautiful colors. For for the non-geeky readers I have a more ‘natural’ one:
Hot Spring Colors (click to enlarge)
The beautiful colors in Yellowstone National Park (USA) are the result of pigmented bacteria that grow around the edges of the mineral rich water. I very much enjoyed it a few years ago, cannot wait to get back there.
Happy Coloring 🙂
Sunday Morning Start
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Start into the Sunday morning, with the morning sun illuminating the area around Lake Lowerz, Canton Schwyz, Switzerland.
Sunday Morning Start on Lake Lowerz
Hrad Veveří Castle
I’m visiting Brno in the Czech Republic which is the second largest city of the country. A bit outside of the town there is the is the Veveří Castle. Got there in the evening, and the castle was about to be closed to the public, so I was able to take a few pictures only. The sunlight painted the castle in a nice color:
Castle Hrad Veveří
Field Art Link Star in Memory of Agent BBJ
Yesterday night, in a cross faction Ingress operation, agents from different places in Switzerland created a virtual Field Art Star for the recently passed agent BBJ (BigBigJerk) Andreas Lander. Agents from both factions worked together to create a gigantic link star in Switzerland. Watch the video of its creation:
The Lost Bell Tower of Graun in Lake Reschen
On our motorbike tour through the Alps this weekend, we visited Italy, Austria and of course many summits in Switzerland. On the way from Italy to Austria we visited Lake Reschen (or Lago di Resia), an artificial Lake in South Tyrol, Italy, south of the Reschen Summit. The lake is famous for the bell tower of a 14th-century church: the tower is all what remains from the submerged village of Graun, and it probably Italy’s most famous drowned town:
Glockenturm im Reschensee
MCU on Eclipse 