A view of Helsinki, Finland from an aircraft just before landing at the airport there. Photo taken on February 3, 2022.

I awoke yesterday morning to find these ice crystals which had formed on the glass of my window at Akola, near the town of Ii in northern Finland, which is pretty much on the arctic circle (65.3° North latitude). The temperature outside was around -21° C (or around -6° F). The wind chill factor? Don’t…

Snowfall in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol. Photo taken in November of 2019.

Taken from my window an hour ago.

Just a spider spinning a web in Amsterdam that I passed by on the street in November of 2021, stopping for a second to take this photo.

Water freezing on a chain link fence near Mittewald, South Tyrol.

The massif named Plose towers over the east side of Brixen, South Tyrol, as seen from my window in Franzensfeste. Photo taken in the early morning a couple of weeks ago.

Water flowing over rocks in the river Eisack last week as it makes its way through Franzensfeste, South Tyrol.

View of the Dolomites from the Villanderer Alm in the South Tyrol. Photo taken last week during a walk in the mountains. Happy holidays!

A vineyard in Bozen, South Tyrol, from a friend’s balcony. Photo taken this past Friday evening.

I went to the station in Brixen, South Tyrol, to pick up a friend who arrived from Venice on this train. Photo taken on November 9, 2021.

A colorful denizen of Brixen, South Tyrol. Photo taken last week.

Early morning sky above the Eisacktal valley in the South Tyrol in October of 2021.

Last week, my wife and I were in Amsterdam for a couple of days. The historic house we were staying in, called Castrum Peregrini, belonged to the artist Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht who hid two Jewish people in it from the Nazis during WWII. This is one of her paintings that the…

Photo taken yesterday evening at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam.

School of fish in a pond in Vahrn, South Tyrol. Photo taken last week.

The top photo was taken by me at a park called Lido in Brixen, South Tyrol, on the 20th of October last year. It reminded me of the painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat. (I’ll put a photo of that painting in the comments so you can…

Graves of soldiers killed in WWI and II, in the Soldatenfriedhof in Brixen, South Tyrol. Photo taken last week when, needing a bit of peace, I went and sat there for some time in the middle of the day.

Moonrise over the massif called Plose in Brixen, South Tyrol, in October of 2016.

The Dolomites in the South Tyrol, partially obscured by a low cloud layer, as seen from Spiluck at the end of August.