deep winter

Please accept my excuses for not going outside these days - again nothing fresh here on the blog but something from the archives.

We've got 5 to 15 degrees Celsius below zero, plus fierce north-easterly winds, plus a few centimetres of snow which get blown around in snowdrifts so that you cannot even go cross-country skiing, as there are vast patches of ground barely covered in snow while in other parts snowdrifts are half a metre deep, or even deeper.

But it should be milder tomorrow or on sunday, with a cosy minus 5 and a mere wind force of 3 to 4. Possibly you'll see something new then, here on this blog.

tick hunting

Today I was tick hunting in the mountains of Leis (Leiser Berge). I caught none while a friend of mine did, and I am really envious now. Seems I just can't get the hang of tick hunting.

These mountains, by the way (hills really, but mountains they are called - in German), also seem to be a good hunting grounds for orchids, but for that you'll have to wait till next spring.