Goodbye Autumn!

It seems that autumn has bypassed us here this year. If I hadn’t been to a magical Italian lake the first week of October, I wouldn’t have been able to shoot any coloured foliage. Now with 0 degrees Celsius almost freezing the ground outside, I have to say goodbye to autumn before even saying hello to it. Here are some photos I took in…

Weekly Photo Challenge: HAPPY

The surest way to reach happiness is to accept the things you can’t do anything about, and to change the things you can, and want to. I can’t do anything about harsh winters or scorching hot summer temperatures here, but I can choose to spend my summer holidays in a colder climate, and I can travel southward in winter. The following series of photos…

SUNDAY POST: FAVORITE SPOT

Favourite spot is the inner garden each of us should cultivate in our heart. It can be found anywhere regardless of the sights/images that surround you… Beauty can be found almost everywhere, if you bring your inner garden with you. Maybe the attached track and photo will say it better for me.

SUNDAY POST: Reflection

This is the place where I come to reflect, to meditate…my oasis in the mountains, the emerald lake with the most beautiful reflections in the Alpine region of Italy, Lago di Braies. Join me for a walk around the lake, and listen to the selected tune    

Black and White in the Mountains

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe    

SUNDAY POST: Splendid

I have been waiting for the right moment to post photos of my new favourite lake, which is Lago di Landro in the Dolomites. This Sunday Post theme is “Splendid” [Latin splendidus, from splendēre, to shine.], as in splendor of the mountains reaching high above the Alpine lake, glistening in the sun, magnificent and imposing, asking to be visited and explored …  place to…