Picture spam, the snowy part. Saturday evening the rain turned to snow and when I looked out of the window in the morning on Sunday, everything was white. On the one hand I'd have loved to do another hiking tour, but on the other hand the effect was fantastic and occasionally downright fairytale-like, since most of the trees not only still had ( Read more... )

Firstly - Merlin 5.05, where things are finally getting serious. (And a bit more ambitious than ~comic relief~, thank God.) The one minor quibble I have is that I seem to remember that Arthur was already more respectful towards magic/the old religion, but my memories are more than a bit fuzzy here because for the last couple of seasons I haven't ( Read more... )

I didn't actually mean to disappear for another two months, but life has been... Hard to say, really. Partly busy, partly depressing, and partly just going through it day after day and just not feeling that any of it is particularly worth writing about. ( Read more... )

These are from last Sunday, although after last week at work it feels so much longer than that. From Mitterlengau up the Schusterkogel, and then along the rim of the valley via Teufelssprung and Hohe Penhab back down again. The mood is very different here, because while the mountains are about the same height, this is slate rather than limestone, ( Read more... )

Wednesday, up to the Ingolstädter Haus, once again im Frühtau zu Berge starting vey early because it was still very hot and they predicted thunderstorms for the later afternoon. This is essentially only across the valley from Monday's hiking tour - the treeless green space on the mountain in the background of this picture are the alpine meadows on ( Read more... )

Finally sorted out and uploaded (although admittedly still rather indiscriminately) my pictures from last week's hiking tours in Salzburg to flickr. They're really nothing much photography-wise, all credit is due to the sheer gorgeousness of the landscape, but I enjoyed that time so much that my sense of self-critique refuses to cooperate. Hence, ( Read more... )

Um, another two-week hiatus; but this time it wasn't just sheer laziness/apathy. I've (finally, finally) made it to Salzburg Thu. evening last week and stayed until Wed., and while I didn't do as much as I'd planned, I enjoyed it a lot.

( Personal ramblings and a few photos. )

It's a bit weird posting these pictures now, and almost impossible trying to recreate the mood three weeks further into spring and back at home, but I was so busy writing that I didn't even look at them once I downloaded them. From my trip to the Chiemsee on the 11th, which was just completely, utterly gorgeous. I was walking on the beach rather ( Read more... )

While I'm posting photos, this is the only one from the Salzburg holiday that I'm actually sort of fond of because somehow it manages to be more than just a pale echo of reality. Even the sun-flare kind of works on the b&w version.


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Some more photos from a week ago, this time from Hallstatt. Again, nothing much photography-wise, but it's a pretty place...


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