here are a bunch of pics of the beautiful ski slopes of the austrian alps . .
nikolas and anika
m finds a large icicle . .
the exquisite lärchenbaum!
this is the favorite tree of our friend stefan. it's a deciduous pine and it's needles fall off leaving behind a seemingly ghostly image of it's summer self in the cold winter air. you can read about the tree in english here.
it looks very steep, doesn't it!
our friends say morgana skiis well and they are impressed with how quickly she learned.
We had a "Lärche" in our yard when we were growing up. It was huge! We loved the needles in the fall because they are so soft. By the way, the tree rhymes with the bird "Lerche" (lark). It is hard to learn for German children to remember the appropriate spelling depending on what you want to say.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever seen a Larch tree . . except in pictures :)
DeleteI wonder if they grow on this continent, I have no clue.
DeleteI think maybe in Canada. There's a different species of Larch called "larix laricini" that the Algonquins used for snowshoes (according to wikipedia) and which they called "tamarack."
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