At least that WAS the wilderness unti the drought hit. Now it’s all brown and beige and green is a dream of the wild past.

This is a view from the Murmeltiertal, the Valley of the Marmots, in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. I waited here for my fellow hikers to return who went up the hill (I had problems with the altitude and didn’t want to chance it). I heard quite a few marmots whistling, saw a few scrambling shadow but couldn’t get a picture (it was a fw years ago and I didn’t have a camera with a decent zoom either).


Henry, our cat, confronts me. When he is hungry, when he wants to be left alone, when he doesn’t want to be left alone, when he wants to cuddle (seldom), when he doesn”t want to cuddle (more often), when I try to brush him, when he brings a mouse, when he doesn’t bring a mouse … He doesn’t hold back with his opinions.
One minute he was standing there the next he was lying at the bottom of the slope. The Schadenfreude (obvious glee in his mishap) in the other fellows face is due to the fact that the fallen guy was the one who was responsible for … Continue reading Fallen in the line of duty
Since I don’t have a cardinal (butterfly) nor a cardinal (bird) no even a Roman catholic cardinal (although I played a 1/2 one once) on file, I turned to cardinals aka 1,2,3 … or so I thought. But I looked at cardinal numbers (instead of … Continue reading A challenge and a half
The Andernach Geyser (in the Eifel, Germany, next to the river Rhine) is the highest cold water geyser in the world (up to 60m). It contains natural CO2 . If you want to know more have a look at wikipedia: Andernach Geyser. Ragtag Daily Prompt: … Continue reading Bubbly — but without a glass