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Title: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on January 31, 2009, 07:48:12 PM: Having a bit more time I have looked at your photos. And I'm ashamed a little, that I didn't nothing write for a long in the forum.
But either I was out or I have planed my trips or I made photos in the garden.

Now I would like to share with you my photos from the Alps ... or have you enough of Alps?

1. Königsee
2. Saxifraga
3. ?
4. Saxifraga
5. Ranunculus glacialis
6. Flowering field on the Stelvio Pass
7. Stelvio National Park

click the pictures to enlarge them......
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on January 31, 2009, 07:59:12 PM: 1. Silene acaulis
2, 3 Ranunculus glacialis
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Maggi Young on January 31, 2009, 08:09:34 PM: Ewelina, it is so good to have you posting again..... for lovers of alpine plants, we can NEVER have enough of the Alps!! 8) Especially when they are super photos of superb plants!!! :D
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on January 31, 2009, 08:25:37 PM: OK, in this case I choose something. I'm convinced, the Alps are the most magnificent mountains of Europe.

1. The field of Ranunculus - once again
2. Ortler Group
3. Stelvio
4. Lake Bianco (White) and Bernina Pass
5. Bernina
6. Bernina
7. Pulsatilla alpina ssp. apiifolia
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: art600 on January 31, 2009, 10:42:04 PM: Quote from: Maggi Young on January 31, 2009, 08:09:34 PM
Ewelina, it is so good to have you posting again..... for lovers of alpine plants, we can NEVER have enough of the Alps!! 8) Especially when they are super photos of superb plants!!! :D

You took the words right out of my brain. :) :) :)
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Maggi Young on January 31, 2009, 10:46:29 PM: Quote from: art600 on January 31, 2009, 10:42:04 PM
Quote from: Maggi Young on January 31, 2009, 08:09:34 PM
Ewelina, it is so good to have you posting again..... for lovers of alpine plants, we can NEVER have enough of the Alps!! 8) Especially when they are super photos of superb plants!!! :D

You took the words right out of my brain. :) :) :)
I can believe that, Arthur! What do you think to the plants of Ranunculus glacialis? Are they not mouthwatering? Never saw the like!! :D
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: art600 on January 31, 2009, 10:49:26 PM: I can admire even more those I think I would not be able to grow.

I have spent many happy hours looking at Ewelina's website.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on February 01, 2009, 10:58:34 AM: Good to have you back Ewelina !
Beautiful shots and surely we can never see too much of the Alps !
The Ranunculus glacialis are stunning !! :o
I wonder how long it will take Mr Buttercup to discover this thread ! ;D
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on February 01, 2009, 12:31:18 PM: 1. Geum reptans
2. Gentiana verna

It was rainy. I must have change earlier planed road in order to find the sun. But in place of it, I discovered new places.

3. Bregaglia Valley
4. Cascate dell'Aquafraggia (Waterfalls) are imposing 170m.
5. Lago di Como
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on February 01, 2009, 07:54:36 PM: This time some photos from Gran Paradiso National Park - south side. My favourit place.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: David Nicholson on February 01, 2009, 08:03:11 PM: Welcome back Ewelina, very interesting pictures
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: ranunculus on February 01, 2009, 09:06:21 PM: Quote from: Luc Gilgemyn on February 01, 2009, 10:58:34 AM
The Ranunculus glacialis are stunning !! :o
I wonder how long it will take Mr Buttercup to discover this thread ! ;D

Too long, Luc ... too long ... We have been out all day ...!

Beautiful images, Ewelina. Many thanks for posting.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: ranunculus on February 01, 2009, 09:19:38 PM: Quote from: art600 on January 31, 2009, 10:49:26 PM
I can admire even more those I think I would not be able to grow.

A 'spirited' response, Arthur ... this magnificent ranunculus is one of the great horticultural challenges ... it is certainly growable, but a large flowering plant is just the stuff of dreams for many a grower.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on February 01, 2009, 09:48:45 PM: 1. It's hard to believe but there on the height of over 2000m run the bus from Ceresole.
2. The field of flowers
3. We climb higher and higer, view of lake Serru and Agnel
4. Laghi del Nivole and La Grivola in background, heart of National Park
5. Primula pedemontana
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Lvandelft on February 01, 2009, 09:59:37 PM: Super images, Ewelina. Thanks so much for posting!
Wonder how many weeks you were travelling there. You must have made
many kilometers??
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on February 01, 2009, 10:23:41 PM: We were all in all 12 days with the rented car (Mercedes transit) and tents. So, we was able to stay for the every night in another place.

Below my home on wheels, with which I have tripped in the Alps and earlier to Iceland.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Thomas Huber on February 02, 2009, 08:49:33 AM: Hi Ewelina and welcome back!
Great photos of great landscape, many thanks!
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: hadacekf on February 02, 2009, 02:08:16 PM: Ewelina,
Beautiful images, thanks.
5. Primula spectabilis, hirsuta? = P. pedemontana
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on February 02, 2009, 02:46:41 PM: Quote from: hadacekf on February 02, 2009, 02:08:16 PM

5. Primula spectabilis, hirsuta? = P. pedemontana

Thank you Franz.

As always, you are reliable in ID plants

1. Senecio
2. The way from Colle del Nivole
3. Who knows latin name? Cliff indentified below as Lotus corniculatus
4. Silene alpina
5. Linaria alpina
6. Not all of us felt up to walk round the Lake Serru.
7. Rhododendron
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on February 02, 2009, 02:52:52 PM: Quote from: Lvandelft on February 01, 2009, 09:59:37 PM
You must have made many kilometers??

Luit,
We have made 3902 km from Cracov to Cracov. I found now account of kilometers and fuel.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: ranunculus on February 02, 2009, 03:18:52 PM: Looks like Lotus corniculatus, Ewelina, but I haven't been to that particular area?
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on February 02, 2009, 03:24:21 PM: Quote from: ranunculus on February 02, 2009, 03:18:52 PM
Looks like Lotus corniculatus, Ewelina, but I haven't been to that particular area?

Thank you, Cliff. I knew only polish name.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Tony Lee on February 02, 2009, 05:21:38 PM: I think you are right Cliff,Is it the same species that grows here in the U/k ?,we used to know as egg and bacon as kids,probably as some of the petals had a red streak,not seen it for years.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Maggi Young on February 02, 2009, 05:42:07 PM: Bird's foot trefoil.... Lotus corniculatus.... one of the prettiest wild flowers we have in the UK, I think, and much overlooked
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Lvandelft on February 02, 2009, 09:34:39 PM: Quote from: Ewelina Wajgert on February 02, 2009, 02:52:52 PM
Quote from: Lvandelft on February 01, 2009, 09:59:37 PM
You must have made many kilometers??
Luit,
We have made 3902 km from Cracov to Cracov. I found now account of kilometers and fuel.
Well Ewelina, that makes about 200 Km a day in the Alps though.
Good to have your bed with you then. ;D 8)
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on February 02, 2009, 10:18:15 PM: Quote from: Lvandelft on February 02, 2009, 09:34:39 PM
Well Ewelina, that makes about 200 Km a day in the Alps though.

That makes the first day nearly 1000km to Berchtesgaden
The second nearly 400 km to Reschenpass
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Last day over 1000 km from Lindau to Cracovia
Now calculation looks differently. Sometimes we made 30-50km.
Below is itinerary
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on February 03, 2009, 06:37:55 PM: 1. Valnontey
2. Botanical Garden in Valnontey
3. Sempervivum
4. Nigritella
5. The field of Dryas octopetala
6. Myosotis alpestris
7. Myosotis alpestris
8. Gentiana verna
9. Rifugio Vittorio Sella
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Armin on February 15, 2009, 08:45:38 PM: Ewelina,
thank you your showing these pictures - it is a great pleasure to see.

I believe the impressions caught are worth of it while sitting so long in the bus :D
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: JohnnyD on February 23, 2009, 02:19:09 PM: Clare & I have been debating 'where next?' - and new!
Having visited the alps only very briefly (about half a day :-\) some years ago it is now firmly back in the foreground.
We have friends in the Auvergne and in Vif (just south of Grenoble) who we would wish to visit and July seems to be the perfect time to combine all of it.
Thanks for the inspiration Ewelina - brilliant pics.

JohnnyD.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on February 28, 2009, 09:47:50 AM: Johnny,
You have chance to visit 2 parks du Vanoise e des Ecrins, in which I wasn't yet, although I had good intentions to see them.

1. Lake Loson in Gran Paradiso
2. Glacier Tribolazione
3. Pinguicula vulgaris
4. Orchis ?
5. Mont Blanc and its glacier
6. Sunrise in Val Veny with view on Mont Blanc massif
7. Val Veny, sunrise
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Lori S. on April 04, 2009, 02:39:27 AM: I enjoyed the pictures immensely! And I've fallen in love with Ranunculus glacialis... first from books and now again from these fine photos. How extraordinary to see such switchbacking paved roads (photo # 11)! (Like Lombard Street in San Francisco taken to the nth degree!)
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on April 12, 2009, 02:18:10 PM: 1. This peak knows probably everybody - Matterhorn from South side (Breuil - Cervinia)
2. Glacier des Bossons
3. Val du Rhone
4. Aiguille du Midi
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on April 12, 2009, 02:40:45 PM: I hope, you like to see some pictures from the mountains. Unfortunately at 4000m above sea level without plants. But the views are tooked breath away.

1. View from Aguille du Midi - Grande Jorasses, Dent du Géant
2. Mont Blanc du Tacul, Mont Maudit, Mont Blanc
3. Matterhorn and Monte Rosa
4. View from Punta hellbroner - Val Veny and Des Ecrins in the background
5. Snow crack - compare with footprints. They make impression!
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: ranunculus on April 12, 2009, 02:56:51 PM: No, we HATE mountains, Ewelina ... especially mountain images as boring as these! ;D ;D ;D

Wonderful photographs from beautiful places. Many thanks for posting.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Maggi Young on April 12, 2009, 06:31:51 PM: Wonderful... like a film!
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on April 12, 2009, 07:22:26 PM: Now I have more green

1. Gorge du Durnand
2. Mauvoisin
3. Water tunnel in Swiss Alps, in the wall is cut the path for hikers
4. Mauvoisin
5. Gypsophylla?
6. Mauvoisin dam
7. Meadow of Dryas octopetala
8. Dryas octopetala
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Armin on April 12, 2009, 11:07:35 PM: Ewelina,
super images. 8)
Have you went up the stairs of Gorge du Durnand?
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Ewelina Wajgert on April 13, 2009, 10:15:40 AM: Armin,

I was in Durnand at dawn. I have feeled this day unwell. And I have went about 500m and had to come back.
Some days earlier I was in Almbachklamm near Berchtesgaden, it was beautiful too.
My friends, that are first time in the Alps were delighted. They have thought every day, they see nothing more beautiful and every day was surprise for them.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: Armin on April 13, 2009, 06:35:10 PM: Ewelina,
sorry that you felt unwell.
The Alps are fascinating and the nature is of unbeatable beauty.
Title: Re: The Alps from July 2008
Post by: David Nicholson on April 13, 2009, 07:01:18 PM: Lovely pictures Ewelina, many thanks for posting them. A King's ransome would not have got me to climb that staircase ;D