Looking pretty sitting on my office wall: Distoleon tetragrammicus Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.

Saw this creature outside my house. I am told it is called Podarcis muralis, or the European wall lizard.



 Voices Choir concert in Bozen, South Tyrol.

Somewhere over southern Germany. When one can see the Austrian alps, I know I am close to home.

New growth, even on the evergreen trees, in the woods near Franzensfeste, South Tyrol.

At the airport in Berlin.

Pigeon sitting on a skylight at the Berlin airport. And its shadow.

Winter on the mountains, spring in the Mittewald valley of the South Tyrol, on this crisp day in late April, 2024.

Clouds above Berlin this past Thursday.

Trout (I think) in a pond in Vahrn, South Tyrol.

Alpine salamander in the woods near Franzensfeste, South Tyrol.

At a pond in Vahrn, South Tyrol.

Rust dripping down the side of an old blue railway carriage, from a horizontal iron bar not included in this photo, at the train station in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol.

Magnolias and blue sky last week in Meran, South Tyrol.

Self portrait by reflection in a glass door in Meran, South Tyrol.

Train entering Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, from the south.

At the Italian town of Limone sul Garda.

Cars in front of the train station of Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, during a brief but heavy snowfall last week.