frozen waterfalls around Bad Urach 2018-03-01

A little bit than two years ago in early March, a cold wave created some icy motifs around the waterfalls of Bad Urach:

Urach Waterfall

frozen Urach waterfall

ice around the Brühlbach

The ice around the stream appeared more interesting to me than the frozen waterfall, where the ice didn´t reach the extent of the cold winter 2012.

Brühlbach

The deeply blue-turquoise colour of the water was impressive:

Brühlbach stream

ice along the Brühlbach stream

ice

Brühlbach

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evening light 2019-12-30

Impressions from an evening walk over the fields on the Schaichberg hill around Walddorfhäslach:

„will to survive“ - mustard continues to grow on a ploughed field in winter

fields in the evening light

view of Schaich (front) and Aich (back) valley in the Schönbuch forest

three pear trees on the Schaichberg hill in the evening light

Achalm mountain in the evening light
View of Achalm mountain and the edge of the Schwäbische Alb (Albtrauf). To the right you can see Schloss Lichtenstein (Lichtenstein castle) on a rock above the Echaz valley.

fruit tree in the evening light with view of the Albvorland and the edge of the Schwäbische Alb

Altenriet in the evening light

view of the Roßberg (with tower)

bare-branched maple tree (Acer platanoides) at dusk

silhouette of Walddorf at dusk

ZRH-SIR-ZRH: day trip to Valais with views of the snow-covered Alps 2017-02-11

In August 2016, Swiss announced that the route Sion (SIR) – London (first planned LCY, later switched to LHR) would be operated on the four Saturdays in February 2017 by Helvetic Airways Embraer 190 to connect the winter sports regions around Sion directly to England. The positioning flights between Zürich and Sion were also bookable. SIR is a quite small airport with only 24.000 passengers annually (2014) and hard to reach by sheduled flights, even harder that convenient as a day trip. I didn't have to think for a long time and quickly booked STR-ZRH-SIR-ZRH-STR looking forward to enjoying freat views of the Alps mountains in winter – and I did not get disappointed.

ZRH – SIR (outbound)

LX2840 operated by Helvetic Airways Embraer 190 HB-JVO
9:16 (STD 9:05) – 9:52 (STA 9:50) – flight time 36 min

Departure on RWY 28, heading westwards until Aarau, then turning left heading to the Thunersee. After 9 min the cruising altitude of 19.000 ft was reached. A short left-/right turn with views of the Thunersee. Left turn over Eiger/Mönch mountains, briefly heading towards northeast, followed by a approx. 180° right turn over Grimselpass/Obergoms to align with the Rhone valley. Descending along the Rhone valley between the summits to land on SIR RWY 25.

view of the fod at the ground

clouds clearing up

View of Lake Thun (bottom left)

View of Lake Thun

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church of Herrenberg at night 2016-01-24

Herrenberg´s church at night

Hohenzollern castle at sunrise 2015-11-11

Hohenzollern castle at dawn

Hohenzollern castle at dawn

sunrise Hohenzollern castle

Hohenzollern castle at sunrise

Hohenzollern castle in the morning light

Hohenzollern castle in the morning light

Hohenzollern in focus camera in focus
EOS 700D on a tripod in front of the Hohenzollern castle.