Category: Flora Vogelmoos
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Tender Signs of Spring
Aren’t we waiting for decisive signs of spring? This longing stems from the inumerable disruptions of winter by burst of blue skies and warm temperatures that suddenly retrace to the cold of winter with low lying clouds and intermittent snow. On one of the recent days pointing to the warmer season to come, I shot…
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The End of Tree Life
The disappearance of the leaves on the trees and the retraction of greens on the ground in late fall free the view on trees. It is easy to distinguish healthy trees from sicklish or dying and dead ones. I am not always sure what I see. Is it the display of a late life cycle…
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Where is it?
The weather is still oscillating between winter and early spring. Albeit in mid-February, we are a long time before snow has disappeared for good. On some days the mountains are white like in deep winter and just a week later the snowmay only cap the summits. Perhaps some readers passing by my blog might ask:…
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Quiet Days before Winter
Since my last blog, on November 4, 2023 the temperature has further cooled, days shortend to just about 9 hours and the snowline fallen to 1200 – 1500 m (3600 – 4500 feet). Only a few weeks ago, my time with the camera in the woods depended on my other schedules. We had such a…
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Forest Trees: End of life
We tend to admire the beauty of trees at their prime of life. Birch tree at Vogelmoos Nature Reserve I shot some picutres of the end of their life cycle. These trees have reached the end of their life and look pitiful. The visible changes that accompany their demise are varied and reminders of life’s…
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The forest – a community of plants and animals
The forest is not just an assembly of trees: It is a comunity of trees, shrubs, plants and all kinds of animals that need its shelter and support to thrive. This may not be news to anyone but for sure, it influenced my thinking of the forest when I called this fact into my mind.…
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Late Summer
Mid September: The days are shorter now. The sun used to rise before 6 AM in July, now it is close to 7 AM and it is setting before 8 PM. The weather continued to be exceptionally warm with little rain since mid-August. The forest is overgrown with shrubs and bushes. Blackberries and other spiny…
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Early Summer at the Pond
Many weeks have gone by since the last post on Vogelmoos Nature Reserve. I had an incredible opportunity to witness spring in the desert of Southern California. I captured these impressions in two previous blogs. The weather usually remains cold and winter-like in April and May in Switzerland, but this year spring came at the…
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Spring in Central Switzerland vs Southern California
I have the great luck to spend the second half of April in Southern California. The Southwest of the United States had been suffering from a drought for several years. It was relieved by an abundance of rain, and snow in the mountains this winter. The mountain tops of the Coachella Valley in Southern California…
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