Winter Weather in the Jura Foothills

We went for a walk in the hills last Saturday. This was the sun through the foggy morning mist.


It made for a very atmospheric view of our regular walking place. All of the photos in this blog post were taken with a mobile phone camera, as I hadn't brought the normal camera.You can see how it looks without fog in the previous post, New Year's Walk, which shows photos of the same scenery.



There were tiny mushrooms nested in the grass.










The colors were beautiful.



This dirt road looks like something out of a fantasy scene, disappearing off into the unknown.












Yesterday we went for a drive a bit higher up. Even though there was snow on the ground in places, it was warm in the sun. It almost felt like spring with the sun being out. The muted mellow colors were very pretty.










But for now it is still winter and the trees are standing like bare sentinels waiting for much warmer weather.

Crystalline Trees

Shortly before Christmas we had a snap of very cold weather. The trees turned into beautiful crystalline entities.











Each one displayed a unique structure.



Some of the trees looked like they were especially created just for Christmastime.












And when the sun shone pale through the mist it lit up the hillsides to display a fairyland...


...of sparkling woods.