Wolves Wild

Chamoix on the slopes of the Laberjoch, an alpine hill outside Oberammergau.

To see in the New Year, door knockers on the main entrances of churches. The first is at Holy Trinity in Stratford on Avon. The others in Cologne and Trier.

The deep gorge of the Partnach stream near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The stream is fed by the meltwaters of one of the glaciers on the Zugspitze mountain, and cuts through the limestone of its lower slopes.

Spring flowers (seen early one May) in one of the alpine meadows between the villages of Oberammergau and Unterammergau.

A goosander swimming in one of the streams  formed by the landscaped River Isar as it flows through Munich’s Englischer Garten.

Rather more exotic than yesterday’s crow, a red squirrel coming out to eat from the peanuts someone has left on a drain cover.