Switzerland Day 4. Flowers around Wengen Alp, Kleine Scheidegg and Eigergletsche

Clear blue skies all day for our walk from Wengen Alp up to Kleine Scheidegg and then down from Eigergletsche. Very contrasty light for portraits but great for flowers in the landscape - and what a landscape. The second photo shows the range of Eiger on left throungh the Monk to Jungfrau on right.

Switzerland Day 3. Blumentahl, Murren

Sunday started cloudy and cool after overnight rain for our visit to the Blumentahl (valley of flowers) on the other side of the Lauterbrunnen Valley. Gradually the cloud lifted to give a sunny end to the day. We caused a certain amount of amusement to the many visiting tourists as we got down to work.

Switzerland Day 2. Wengen Walk from Mannlichen to Kleine Scheidegg

I had hoped for a fine day for our first day in Wengen. Although showery and, at times, enveloped in cloud, we did get glimpses of the wonderful panoramas and the Eiger showed itself on several occasions. It is a late spring so there are still some snow patches with the early spring flowers - Globe flowers, White crocuses, Snowbells etc still very evident as well as later species such as the Yellow anemones.

Wengen - First Morning

The red glow in the sky suggested there might be rain on the way but time before breakfast for a dry walk round the village and look back on our hotel. Serin was singing on a wire and the Green Chafer Beetle was just waking up. Wonderful smell from the hay stooks obviously enjoyed by one of the many Black Redstarts. By the time we had breakfasted, the rain arrived but it proved to be showery so didn't prevent us enjoying a ride up to Mannlichen and the walk to Kleine Scheidegg - see next post.

Story of a Fox

I have been starting to sort through my Swiss holiday images and thought I would record the tale of the Fox as a lesson on keeping your longest lens on the camera when walking. I had been photographing flowers and was in a bit of a hurry to get the train back to Wengen so did not change to longer lens. Round the corner comes this bold fox carrying a discarded sandwich so the first shot was with the 50mm (fortunately not the 24mm). He came pretty close so a reasonable shot was had before he headed off into the rocks on the left. As I had a hard-boiled egg left over from lunch (dyed an orange colour!), I threw this for him as delaying tactics while I changed lenses. It worked and with my 70-200 mm I was able to get closer photos as he buried the egg and then went back to retrieve more discarded lunch.