This will hurt me...

Hartz Mountains National Park was been shaped by glaciers during past ice ages. Here we are walking up through the centre of the park to Lake Osborne, a small glacial lake reached by a walk through wet eucalypt forest, into alpine heath and then onto the lake itself. It was well worth the effort!

Snow bunnies.

Badda bing, badda boom! There once was snow, now there is not. Col tempo la foglia di gelso diventa seta . Forgetaboutit!

I'm tearing through my rapidly deminishing photographs of our day in the snow. Here is Ezra looking decidedly impressed by the bonding capacities of snow on wool. Try as I might though, I struggled to get them to accept the concept that very soon that snow will be water. Of course, they very much understood it when we got back in town and their pants were dripping wet...