The marvellous Ortleralpen and its beautiful flowers

[art600]

Kathrine

A truly wonderful set of photographs.  I particularly liked your idea to have 'shows' of several species - this really enabled us to understajnd where they liked to grow.  The Ranunculus glacialis were wonderful, and the Gentian and Saxifrage were not far behind.

[Lesley Cox]

Paddy, for a moment there I had a seriously worrying picture in my mind, of you creeping up on some unsuspecting pig, slicing off a chunk of ear, then going off to salt it before having a good chew. Had to re-read the post a couple of times.

[ashley]

Very pettable! In fact, reindeer are covered as comprehensively in their thick fur coats as it is possible to be.. feet, noses, long pretty eyelashes... everything is furry !

Most considerate too.  Hiking in Sweden and finding a mountain hut full Helen and I had to resort to a nearby dwarf willow thicket for the night.  Later we woke to reindeer streaming through but not a single (furry) hoof went astray 

[Maggi Young]

I suppose picking their way through ice and snow makes them very sensitive to where there put their feet.

Hiking in Sweden and finding a mountain hut full Helen and I had to resort to a nearby dwarf willow thicket for the night

My, Ashley, you DO know how to give a girl a good time, don't you   

[ashley]

My, Ashley, you DO know how to give a girl a good time, don't you   

As was clearly pointed out to me at the time indeed 
However she's a most tolerant and forgiving person because she later married me 

[Maggi Young]

Ashley, you are one very lucky chap 

[Armin]

Kathrine
enjoyed your Ortler show

[Lesley Cox]

My, Ashley, you DO know how to give a girl a good time, don't you   

As was clearly pointed out to me at the time indeed 
However she's a most tolerant and forgiving person because she later married me 

If you can't beat 'im, join 'im?

[ashley]

If you can't beat 'im, join 'im?

 

[Kristl Walek]

Kathrine,
I had been waiting and watching for this post, as I knew you were going somewhere wonderful on vacation....and was anxious to see your report---and then I somehow missed it and did not find it until today.

But my pleasure was no less finding it late. In fact I dropped all the seed cleaning for an hour or more and enjoyed your trip.
 
Thank you so much for it!!!!!!!

Were you able to find any seed????

Maggi, I have been thinking how nice it would be to have a separate link on the main page called something like "Travels"---where members trips could be posted, and we would have them in one place to refer back to (when we are finally ready to make our journeys to those places ourselves).

[Rafa]

Extremely beautiful report!  thank you very much for sharing these pictures

[Maggi Young]

Maggi, I have been thinking how nice it would be to have a separate link on the main page called something like "Travels"---where members trips could be posted, and we would have them in one place to refer back to (when we are finally ready to make our journeys to those places ourselves).

Kristl, good idea, I will speak to the Bosses!