Trout seen through the surface of a pond in Vahrn, South Tyrol, last week.

Mountain of plastic crates ready for the coming apple harvest in Brixen, South Tyrol.

Snail sitting on a chair in my backyard in June, 2022.

Lawn sprinkler operating in front of the south wall of the Sachsenklemme Hotel restaurant in South Tyrol last week.

Frederica Krüger feeling lazy and lying on the floor in my office a couple of days ago.

Self-portrait at a wedding last week.

Moonrise from my window last week.

Surface of a pond in Vahrn, South Tyrol.

Just a spider web I noticed in a parking lot in Brixen, South Tyrol.

Umbrella, airplane, lamps at an outdoor café in Vahrn, South Tyrol.

  I was surprised by how large normal-sized traffic lights are (they are a foot in diameter) when seen close up. I was walking by one which happens to be at ground level and this time I put my left hand against it for scale.

View through the diaphanous curtains in the bar at the Stafler Hotel in the village of Mauls, in South Tyrol.

Black vultures in the parking lot of the building next to my hotel in Houston, Texas, last week.

Trees in Vahrn, South Tyrol, last week.

Street scene in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol. Photo taken two weeks ago.

Spring in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol. Photo taken last week.

Spring in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, three days ago.

The literary critic Hugh Kenner (whom I got to know a bit when I was an undergrad at Johns Hopkins) once wrote about the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) that he “…tired of flowers, and indulged in artificial flowers, and then tired of those and sought out real flowers so exotic they could pass for…

A fruiting hedge at the Soldatenfriedhof in Brixen, South Tyrol. Photo taken in October, 2021.

Scene at the airport in Helsinki in February, 2022.