cyclamen

Last year in late july many trees already had put on their fall colours; this year, with plenty of rain, nature still is mostly green. Lobau hasn't too much to offer in this transitional period where there are little flowers and, apart from that, boring trees with mostly green leaves. I am awaiting the autumn crocus flowering impatiently, but certainly I'll have to wait at least another couple of weeks.

Today I wasn't in Lobau but in the Alps, on one of the lower hills (where by the way the leaves and ripe fruits of autumn crocusses still were visible while they've already disappeared from Lobau). From there I've brought you an alp cyclamen (Cyclamen purpurascens, German Alpen-Zyklame):

(Also, I've brought with me a minor inury of my left leg while descending the mountain; it is always the descent that hurts - climbing just makes you sweat, but descending really is the horrible thing about hiking in the Alps.)