There is a very unintuitive method of protecting fruit trees from a late spring frost (which can be deadly for fruit crops) on a day when temperatures fall far below freezing in the early morning: the trees with their blossoms and buds are sprayed (from a sprinkler system) with water which keeps freezing on them…

Reflection of mountain in a school building in Brixen, South Tyrol. Photo taken a couple of days ago.

Trees in the late afternoon in early March in front of a mountain in Vahrn, South Tyrol. They will all soon be full of leaves.

My friend Stephen Asma painted this oil portrait of Frederica Krüger at my request. I had just brought it home from the framer’s shop and propped it against a bookshelf in my office when Freddy arrived and proceeded to examine it very carefully. Then I asked her to turn around for a second and took…

 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.