I shot this slow-motion video in January of 2017 in Vahrn, South Tyrol.

At the deserted millennium-old abbey at Neustift in the South Tyrol a couple of days ago.

Late afternoon one day last week as I was waiting for a train at the station in Bruneck, South Tyrol.

Water flowing out of a small hole in a concrete wall and immediately freezing. Photo taken yesterday near Mittewald, South Tyrol.

Sunrise on a foggy day in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, in January, 2021.

Photo taken two days ago of the main church in the town of Welschnofen in the Eggental valley of the South Tyrol.

This is the vapor trail of Aegean Airlines Flight A3840 from Athens to Dusseldorf as it flew over the South Tyrol. I took the photo from my office window at 11:40 am on Saturday and noted down that: “It is an Airbus A321-271NX aircraft, flying at 36,000 feet at a ground speed of 395 knots…

Photo taken from a train window going from Brixen to Franzensfeste in the South Tyrol in January of 2020, back when the prospect of traveling by rail did not make one nervous.

Doormat on my balcony with a fresh sprinkling of snow a couple of days ago.

My wife and her sister walking in the Altfasstal region of the South Tyrol over the weekend.

  Photo taken from my window yesterday morning in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol.

A specimen of the Peruvian grasshopper Lophacris cristata mounted in a vitrine. Photo taken in my living room in December of 2020.

I visited this old friend who lives in a park in Brixen, South Tyrol, last week.

Ducks on a pond in Brixen, South Tyrol, in December of 2020.

The leaves have all fallen off this wild tree but some apples still cling to it for dear life, in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, in December of 2020.

A lamp lighting a storefront in Vahrn, South Tyrol, in November of 2020. And sky.

Reflections of sky and a church tower in the windows of a building at Neustift in the South Tyrol in November of 2020.

The upper fortress of Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, in November of 2020.

Walking toward Brixen from Elvas in South Tyrol in November of 2020.

The river Eisack flowing fast through Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, in October of 2020.