Alpine Walks in Valais

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Angie and Maggi for you lovely comments and I'm glad you enjoyed the blue skies and birds - I was so disappointed to miss the perfect shot of the two buzzards overhead but tried to describe what I saw...I hear them mewing and see them high up but never that close!

This is my last walk in Valais this year before the snow...when we return I'm sure we will have a white Christmas in the Alps with snowy walks  

[ashley]

Thanks for taking us along with you Robin    
Wonderfully evocative pictures.

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Ashley, it is eerie how the whole atmosphere in the mountains at them moment is almost 'on hold' waiting for the inevitable snow  

[tonyg]

Magnifique Robin!

Pic 19 is quite magical - I'd love a bigger version for my desktop

Pic 27 has a sinister quality as the branches seem to be reachng out, threatening to envelope the onlooker.

The whole series have me once again longing to escape to the mountains .... more even than the tour of the Valais offered in Harry Jans post earlier.

You have brightened the evening of a trying day - Thank you!

[Ragged Robin]

Tony, so glad you enjoyed the view    November is not supposed to be good month here but we have had wonderful weather and magnificent colours in the landscape and sightings of wildlife - just when I left my camera out of reach - Chamois are on the move and cross our path, I suppose they now know they are safe from the Chasse     Snow on the high Alpine walks  

Will send you Forest photo tomorrow....

[ranunculus]

Magical moments, Robin ... love them all.

[Katherine J]

What a beauty! And such a good photographer! It's a real pleasure seeing Your pictures, Robin!

[Ragged Robin]

Cliff and Kata,

So glad you are enjoying the photos of this lovely unspoilt area in Valais, even when everything is beginning to fade!  No rubbish in the forests here, everything as Nature intended and people who visit generally respect this 

It is easy to thnk you are the only person living here even in the height of the tourist season we can go for walks that are tucked away and hardly meet anyone    I'm hoping to extend those walks to higher up and more hidden next year so hope you will join me then 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Robin,
You made my day ! 
What a gorgeous selection of photographs and warm, wonderfully moving musings ... 
They are the next best thing to being there !   
Thanks for posting !

[Ragged Robin]

Luc, so pleased you came by if by, virtually 

Knowing these walks and musings are appreciated makes it a double pleasure for me to be able to pass the sights and sounds of the mountains on to wherever Members are in the world     Hope you come back and visit one day 

[Brian Ellis]

Wonderfully expressed Robin, you capture the whole feeling of the end of the year beautifully in both words and picture.  Thank you

[Ragged Robin]

This Autumn has been quite exceptional with sunny days and colour Brian - we have only had ice on the bird bath twice    So you see I didn't have to work too hard!

[Paddy Tobin]

Robin,

A wonderful selection of  photographs, great scenery. Loved it. Paddy

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Paddy, I'll try and send some sunshine your way - sorry to hear you've had such bad flooding where you are.  Living near a river is wonderful but there are risks which can be devastating.

[Lvandelft]

Robin, these wonderful series of pictures bring back some memories of a Austrian holiday in October some years ago.
This time of year when almost nobody is walking around and the quietness of nature together with the colorful landscape and the blue skies are unforgettable.
Looking back the pictures I made then, I saw in that year a lot of snow had fallen already, so this winter season must be rather late starting.
I hope you don’t mind when I show here one photo I made at 1900 m. that year.