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Retired, enjoy travelling and walking and taking photographs of the places I visit.
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Day 269
Soon to set
Again the sun came out late evening. Here the sun is just appearing from behind a dark cloud. #trees #nature #saturday #evening #landscape...
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Day 268
Tree fern
The branch and leaves of a tree fern tightly rolled up prior to opening. Another example of the beauty of nature. #friday #afternoon #food #...
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Day 267
Sun at last
The sun appeared this evening after another dull day. #thursday #outdoors #nature #evening #landscape #tree #red #blue #sky #clouds #day #...
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Day 266
Hilton Peak
Grey again today. Taken shots of this hotel building before so today is a good day to take one and post it. #afternoon #wednesday #blue #s...
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Day 265
Weather vane
Golden fox rooftop weather vane against a dull sky. Struggling today. #evening #tuesday #animal #north #may #west #vertebrate #east #sout...
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Day 264
Governor
Spent a couple of interesting hours at a Victorian pumping station. The volunteers had renovated 2 beam engines and were running them. This i...
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Day 263
Feeding time
A small coot duckling being fed by its parent in the evening light. #nature #duck #evening #landscape #sunday #water #animal #silhouette...
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Day 262
Evening light
Travelling all day. Just time to catch the evening light shining through the trees. #outdoors #nature #saturday #evening #landscape #tre...
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Day 261
Cow fighting.
There is a tradition in Valais in the spring where the cows fight to determine which cow leads the herd up to the mountain pasture for t...
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Day 260
Library
I think this is unique. It is a book lending service in Thun based totally on trust. It sits in a small public area near the lake. One can bor...
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Day 259
Lake tree
Conifer planted in the shingle on the shore of Lake Genva provides some shelter to the ducks. #outdoors #nature #afternoon #duck #lake #land...
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Day 258
Twilight.
The natural light is fading and the street lights in Konolgfingen have just come on but there is still enough light to see Niesen in the bac...
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Day 257
Wet day!
Rain all day, not often I resort to an umbrella. #morning #green #landscape #road #monday #urban #blue #sky #umbrella #rain-drops #may #rainy...
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Day 256
Heimberg
View across Heimberg towards Thun. Neisen on the right. The high mountains are obscured by the clouds. #outdoors #trees #nature #evening #mou...
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Day 255
From the balcony
This is the view from my balcony without the use of telephoto. The mountains are from the left Eiger 3970 metre,Monch 4107,and Jungfr...
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Day 254
Jungfrau
The mighty Jungfrau (4158 metre) not long before the black clouds rolled in. This is taken from my balcony across the rooftops and cropped to...
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Day 253
Allium
The perfect ball of the alium flower is natures display of perfection. #thursday #nature #evening #flower #pink #close #purple #onion #season #...
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Day 252
Not so golden
In the hour before sunset after quite a good day the clouds came in consequently my pics are not so golden. #forest #outdoors #nature #e...
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Day 251
Ready to go!
This Iris is ready to burst into bloom. It's amazing to think what is packaged into that bud and that in a couple of days it will display...
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Day 250
Cottage
Small old Swiss house. #outdoors #afternoon #wood #house #monday #window #flower #architecture #building #europe #gate #roses #rural #vegetati...
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Day 249
Weir
These are the hydraulically controlled weir gates on the river Aare in Thun. For most of the year no water goes over them as it flows through the...
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Day 248
Swollen river.
This was a case of being in the right place at the right time. I was setting the camera up to take a shot of the swollen river Zulg whe...
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Day 247
Wet in the mountains.
only had a few minutes to grab a shot of the mountains before the rain and clouds returned. #morning #outdoors #nature #friday #...
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Day 246
Sunshine on a wet day
Wet day brightened up by bright flowers! #thursday #nature #afternoon #red #flower #pink #macro #close #rain-drops #season #vege...