Every season has its special colors. I very much like the warm colors of the Fall season. Maybe this was the weekend before we will get snow into the lower areas. Soon everything will be covered by cold snow….
Lake View
Happy Falling 🙂
There are so many beautiful places in Switzerland, and I have not visited them all. I finally made it to the Château de Chillon on my last week-end tour (see “Weekend Starting Fire“):
Chillon Castle
The weekend plan is to cruise through the alps, sitting on top of two-cylinder boxer engine. And it begins with a beautiful starting fire….
Weekend Saturday Sunrise
Happy Firing 🙂
When the grass turns brown, orange and red in the Alps, then winter is coming soon.
View from the Susten Summit to the Steingletscher and Steinsee.
Steingletscher mit Steinsee
On my way to the airport to catch an early morning flight. Leaving home and waiting for my train to arrive, and maybe I’m already spotting my plane there?
Mythen Peaks, Sunrise with Plane
A very nice and relaxing vacation week in Austria comes to its end. It was fascinating to see how nature changes by altitude: the lower areas had big and ‘expensive’ flowers, while in the higher areas they were much smaller and had to survive a much harsher environment.
I have good friends in Texas which think that there are no mountains in the Alps: at the time when they visited Switzerland, there were no mountains visible because of low clouds :-(. So their believe is that all the mountains I show are created with Photoshop! To prove that they are wrong (or that I indeed have good Photoshop skills), a collection of mountains from the Austrian mountain tours the past week:
Trail towards the Sonnenspitze
Lakes are the gems of the Alps. Most lakes have been carved out by glaciers during the last ice age, around 10’000 years ago. Their beauty depends on the view-point, angle and position of the sun during the day. So here is a view collection of wonderful lakes from this week:
The weather cleared up, after some rain in the morning. Getting up early for hiking on beautiful trails, including climbing parts in the southern Zugspitz mountain area. My training level is very low as I had no practice this year yet due all the work load. With the result that at the end of the day, I’m very tired with my muscles burning. But I’m full of memories from this wonderful day in the mountains. And this got topped with a beautiful golden sunset. Instead sharing pictures from the tour, I share pictures from the end of the day…
Zugspitze Sunset
It was a day with rain and clouds in the mountains. In the evening, when we returned to the bottom of the valley, the clouds broke up and a wonderful rainbow marked the end of that day.
Zugspitz with Rainbow
MCU on Eclipse 