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Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:34:21 -0700

I'm just wondering: Where have all the Google backlinks to this blog gone? One week ago this blog had a page rank of 4 and now it's zero. Can anybody answer this?

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Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:21:08 -0700

Welcome to my area in Austria A mountain close to me ... the 'Krippenstein', part of the Dachstein.
From there, you have such sights, colour comes from air conditions.
And another sight from the Krippenstein.

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Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:46:31 -0700

So finally ... Spring has sprung in Austria. Here is a photo I made the other day.

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Fri, 16 May 2008 12:17:04 -0700

Look into Austria? There's a WEBCAM installed in the area I live in. The webcam got a variety of functions, you can get overviews, zoom in etc.
This is Bad Goisern on a sunny day in early spring (pics from today, April, 2*, 2008). The place is called: "Bad Goisern". Eh... 'Bad' doesn't mean bad, it means 'bath', this hinting to a special healthy spring (become young again :) hehe) and truly, we get lots of water here in all times of the seasons.
Yes, during day time you can see people and cars moving, and ... you might even see ME. (At least my 'famous' yellow truck).
Beneath, well, thats what you see, when we've got night here:

Sooo, we got mountains, rivers ...
... and lakes ... in the background you see the 'Hallstaetter-See'.

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Fri, 16 May 2008 12:16:34 -0700

Putting up a maypole in Austria

These days all over Austria and Germany MayPoles were put up. In 2006 I made two videos on that and I share them on YouTube.

The first one is on 'Putting up the MayPole' The second one: 'May 1. Celebrations.

On a blog I wrote a bit about the background of putting up maypoles. Following I share some photos I made at the beginning of May 2008.

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Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:22:09 -0700

Storm Emma

March 1. 2008 As I write this the storm 'Emma' is howling outside and shaking the windows here. The following photos are 'shots' I made in my close neighbourhood with my digicam just 4 hours ago. A 'victim' is this tree, (german: 'Eibe', I guess in English called Yew Tree (?), estimated to have been 800-1000 years old.

This tree was considered as a natural monument, a natural memorial and a subject to preservation of ancient monuments. Now its gone. It crashed at approx. 11.30 a.m.

The house was kind of 'lucky' as the falling tree missed the house exactly and fell right beneath.

A lot of houses didn't have this 'luck' today and just from the reports that I heard through personal friends and relatives the damage in a lot of areas is just huge.

This tree was something like a personal friend to me. I often stood beside him (I pass by daily with my dog who appreciated this tree too :-) and thought of all the times he/she's been through.

Just imagine: the young tree (approx. at 1200 a.d.) crusaders on their way to Jerusalem ... and and and ... late middleages, Columbus, Luther ...

Yep, that's it, my mourning about this tree. Of course my sympathy and pity is with all the victims of this storm. Already there have been casualities and the overall damage is huge.

This tree was the closest victim to me, a personal neighbour, you might say.

March 2. Here are some more photos

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Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:58:08 -0700

In the following, I share some 'Easter2008-Photo-Eggs' of the area I live in Austria.

We start a walk at night:

And take a closer look at some trees.

Morning, the sun rising up somewhere ...

Blossoms and small flowers are hidden under snow.

That's a walnut tree.

Singing snowy trees.

And here ... a 'young' yew tree (Taxus baccata).

These pictures contain not much colour, well, that's what our world looks like here in winter.
Black and white and lots of blue. Some people get a kind of blues in such winter areas.
The cure: light your apartment with yellow-red lamps, and 'inhale' that light or try to seek and find the sunshine somewhere else. One of the best things is of course to have a fire place. Watching and feeling the fire brings you comfort and joy.