The marvellous Ortleralpen and its beautiful flowers

[Paddy Tobin]

Kathrine,

What an extraordinarily beautiful place - and so well captured in your photographs. An excellent posting; delighted to look through your photographs and hope you have a few more to come.

Paddy

[Brian Ellis]

Kathrine, Thankyou for sharing your holiday with us, there are some super photos and some lovely plants ...and I love glaciers too!

[David Nicholson]

Lovely pictures Kata.

[David Shaw]

These are superb pics, Kathrine. Thank You. I am pleased that you enjoyed your trip to this amazing area.
Is Solden in the next valley to the Gurglertall and Obergurgle? We went there for several years, very high and superb scenery etc. We also saw the 'holes' in just one of the glaciers, all the others had more conventional crevases, and found them to be very frightening -they form a round tube all the way through the glacier and if you fell in you would become jammed in the tube with no way of moving.

[hadacekf]

Kathrine,
Super photos of wonderful plants. Arabis pumila is a synonym of A. bellidifolia subsp. stellulata.  Saxifraga stellata ssp. alpigena = S. stellaris. 

[Gerdk]

The Ortleralpen are indeed marvellous - but your pics also!
Thank you Kathrine!

Gerd

[Lvandelft]

There are 3 mountain lifts now in Sulden, you don't have to walk too much if you don't want to...

That sounds like a place for me too Kathrine. 
Thanks for sharing your holiday with us and for your beautiful pictures.
The little something in the first posting "007 unknown".....looks like a Lycopodium. ? (Bärlapp)

[ian mcenery]

Am really enjoying your lovely pictures Kathrine the Ortler looks to be well worth a visit

[Lesley Cox]

Another wonderful trip to Europe's mountains for those of us stuck at the bottom of the earth. Many, many thanks Kata. The plants are amazing and the animals so attractive. Wish my legs were sufficiently young and beautiful to warrant waving in the air.

[Katherine J]

Thank you all for your kind comments.

Franz, thanks for your help. In fact I meant stellaris, it was a misspell 

David, yes, th Sulden valley is close to Obergurgle.

Here are some more:

Bird - I don't know his english name 
Half paitned goat 
Achillea
Cerastium latifolium show...
Leucanthemopsis alpina
Pulsatilla

[Katherine J]

Arabis pumila (A. bellidifolia ssp. stellulata 
Campanula
Doronicum clusii
Geum reptans 3x
Lichens
Myosotis alpestris
Saxifraga aizoides
Primula glutinosa

[Katherine J]

Saxifraga oppositifolia show...

Saxifraga bryoides show...

[Katherine J]

Papaver alpinum...

Parnassia palustris
Phyteuma haemisphericum
Pritzelago? - it was all in all approx. 5 mm
Nigritella
Saxifraga caesia
Senecio incanus maybe

[Katherine J]

And just a little more 

Saxifraga caesia
Senecio incanus
Stone wall with flowers
Valeriana supina 2x
?? What is this beauty? It was in Switzerland, in front of a house, lonely  in a stone trough...

It is the end of the story now. Thank you for your interest.

[ranunculus]

Looks like a very well grown Helichrysum milfordiae, Kathrine ...

Magnificent post ... some of those should be entered into the SRGC photographic competition.