Tag: autumn

  • Trail Glove 7 in Autumn

    Trail Glove 7 in Autumn

    Reading Time: 3 minutes This Autumn is different because I have worn running, shoes, normal shoes, and Trail Glove 7 in the rain. I was very happy with the Trail Glove 7 during the entirety of the heat wave. I had no issues with them but now that we’re moving into winter I feel the…

  • Autumn is Coming

    Autumn is Coming

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Autumn, not winter, is coming. A week or two ago I noticed that a tree was changing from Green to red, as the leaves began to turn from Spring and Summer mode to Autumn and Winter mode. I noticed that the trees as you enter and leave Cheserex are also beginning…

  • Velux Fractal Season

    Velux Fractal Season

    Reading Time: 2 minutes When the conditions are just right fractals form on veluxes and they are beautiful. It requires the air to be cool enough for ice to form, but as thin layers, rather than thick. If the wind is just right then you end up with patterns such as the one below. Fractal…

  • From A Spanish to A Swiss Autumn

    From A Spanish to A Swiss Autumn

    Reading Time: 2 minutes When I left for Spain Switzerland was just starting to turn Autumnal. Today, when I looked around I could see that Autumn has arrived properly in Switzerland. In Spain the sun is still warm enough for t-shirt wearing and swimming. The sun is still strong enough to change our chrominance. Yesterday…

  • With A view of the Mont Blanc

    With A view of the Mont Blanc

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m afraid to open the veluxes because of the threat of finding yet another large spider. I don’t mind having to dispose of it, but I hate the idea of having one walking around without me knowing. A great alternative to open windows is to go for your daily walk. You’re…

  • Broken Stones, Good Weather and Autumn

    Broken Stones, Good Weather and Autumn

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Today as I looked at the ground I saw broken stones. The one in the image below is especially beautiful. I don’t know why there were more broken stones than usual. It seems that the conditions were right to bring the stones to the surface and for the farmers’ machinery to…

  • E-bikes, autumn and the changing seasons.

    E-bikes, autumn and the changing seasons.

    Reading Time: 2 minutes One evening this week I was walking in the countryside at the foot of the Jura enjoying the evening when I walked by a couple. They were sitting on a bench looking across some fields towards the Mont Blanc, the Alps and of course the Lac Léman. Leaning against the bench…