Overnight the higher areas received lots of snow, while it was raining in the lower areas, creating a ‘blue, white and green painting’. A new rain and snow weather front is coming, but there was a small blue sky window in the morning. With the sun coming up in my back, I captured the view towards the snow-covered Rigi mountain range:
Rigi, Snow and Green (click to enlarge)
Happy Snowing 🙂
The Föhn Wind kept me up tonight: it was pretty strong with 90-110 km/h browsing through the central valleys of Switzerland. An amazing sunrise with colors I have rarely seen compensated for that restless night with a natural painting:
Morning Clouds with Föhn Wind
The clouds are arranged in lines: this because the Föhn Wind is building ‘standing wind waves over the mountains: if the wind goes up it, water condensate and builds the cloud lines.
Happy Föhning 🙂
Waiting in the cold in the early morning can have an aesthetic aspect:
Ice Flowers
When ice builds beautiful structures on glass we call it ‘Eis Blume‘ (‘Ice Flowers’). In the past this happened on the windows in unheated buildings. These days it is a rare species with all the heated building. This one is more like snow flakes building up nice structures. With the sun coming up in the background their beauty will be gone very soon….
Happy Icing .-)
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
MCU on Eclipse 