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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #165 on: August 10, 2009, 10:06:14 PM »
So true, Maggi, they are compulsive to watch and I nearly missed the train shot!
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #166 on: August 10, 2009, 10:12:30 PM »
A beautiful walk, Robin. Many thanks for sharing.

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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #167 on: August 10, 2009, 10:24:48 PM »
Thanks Paddy, so pleased you enjoyed it and hope the weather is better with you in Ireland  ;)
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #168 on: August 11, 2009, 07:57:05 AM »
another nice walk, robin, loved the misty start and the puffs of seeds off on their journey of hope!
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #169 on: August 11, 2009, 09:16:43 AM »
... sigh ... my hols are hardly over and yet, you make me think of new hols Robin...  ;D  ;)
Thanks for this most enjoyable little journey !  :D
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #170 on: August 11, 2009, 09:32:06 AM »
Cohan, it's great to know you enjoy the threads within threads and I love the idea of interweaving a story......the walks provide an amazing way of looking at things in a different light and so often when I think nothing is there a little scene is being played out!  In the thistle seed shot I stood for ages waiting for a puff of wind to send them sailing but they clung on to each other waiting for the next puff....Jazzy got impatient for her walk so I had to go!  :D
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #171 on: August 11, 2009, 09:39:18 AM »
Luc, I do hope you had a good holiday  :)  Did you go somewhere nearby?  With all these ventures I feel as if everyday has become a bit of a holiday and I wonder sometimes what I was doing before   ::)  So good to know you are coming along and enjoying the sorties...yesterday I thought that even in up and down weather there is so much to see locally off the beaten track that I will never run out of places to go here  8)
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #172 on: August 11, 2009, 09:51:20 AM »
My holidays were ok Robin, but they were spent at home... sweet home...  :'(  Still, pix like yours give me a (good) holiday feeling... especially because I've visited Wallis quite often in the past...
must go back soon...  ::)
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #173 on: August 11, 2009, 10:01:04 AM »
The meadows await you  ;)
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #174 on: August 29, 2009, 11:35:01 AM »
Excellent pics, Robin.  Excellent! 8)
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #175 on: October 22, 2009, 08:14:43 AM »
The Heren cow knows it, ruminating under the old seasoned tree, tasting the last blades of green grass, relaxing in the pale yellow rays of sun  -  Autumn has arrived.
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #176 on: October 22, 2009, 08:17:23 AM »
It took its time, with warm sunshine holding off the changing colours of leaves but then the snow fell on the high peaks and signalled a drop in temperature with frosty mornings spreading the magic through the forest.
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #177 on: October 22, 2009, 08:20:40 AM »
Colour stands out starkly in the late afternoon, red hips, blue sloes, golden grasses and green mosses spilling over a rock, draw your eye……
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #178 on: October 22, 2009, 08:21:59 AM »
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Re: Alpine Walks in Valais
« Reply #179 on: October 22, 2009, 08:25:36 AM »
In the dark of the shadows a sunny spotlight displays the changing palette of leaves, green, yellow, brown and the final mix ends up on the forest floor – ready to be recycled.
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