καιρός remembered

The bathtub in the snow reveals that we are here on a mountain pasture in winter. The cows are in their shed down in the valley. The marmots are hibernating in their holes underground. And the people have closed their summer chalets and have moved to their homes lower down.

The virgin blanket of snow has thoroughly changed the atmosphere of the landscape. As far as the eye can see there is whiteness, brightness. Silence reigns.

Photo of the week: Chesières, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, 2004