This winter in the Alps is very dry and warm. Because there is no snow it is excellent to do some hiking instead. I’m closing the year with the family in the Italian part of the Alps, and we visited today the Fane Alm, a seasonal alpine pasture. The most beautiful small alpine village I ever have seen. It is located at the top end of the valley of Vals, South Tyrol, Italy.
Fane Alm
The Winter Solstice day ended with a spectacular sunset sky:
Red Evening Sky
Happy Solsticing 🙂
The shortest day of the year started with a beautiful sunrise. Good morning everyone!
Red Morning Sky
Happy Raising 🙂
Dealing with a nasty flu, so I did not sleep very well. The updside of that is that I woke up early to see this beautiful sunrise over the Alps, with trails from airplanes high above….
Morning Trails
I hope I can fully recover over the weekend.
Happy Trailing 🙂
During the night we received the first snow for this winter. The sun was breaking through the clouds in the afternoon, and it happened that I was near Brunnen to take of the Wylen chapel with the snow-covered Mythen in the background:
Kapelle Wylen
Picture taken in the evening with the sun already down behind the Rigi: Like a pot of glowing Lava, and a plane on the sky heading down to it…
Rigi Sunset
Happy Setting 🙂
Golden Path
My daughter has sent me two beautiful pictures I would like to share here. The first one was taken mid of October shows the autumn colors with all the leaves on the ground.
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Autumn is showing up at its best, and so far it is really a ‘Golden Autumn’ so far, with temperature above average. The usual ground fog is gone, with beautiful views to the mountains. The pictures below were taken last Saturday:
Mythen
It happened that my way back home today was passing the same point from this morning (see “Morning Autumn Mirror Lake“), but this time it was right on time for a beautiful sunset:
Red Rigi Sunset
Morning Mirror Lake
MCU on Eclipse 