Switzerland - Ireland 2008 Click here to skip to new pics added in July (click on any picture to view it at full resolution, then use back button to return)

Coming down near Zürich late May.

Countryside Lake Zürich.

Market garden cutting garden in Obermeilen, Switzerland; peonies, articholes, roses, grapes in the background.

Industrial area complete with graffiti north of Männedorf.

Horse trough near what may have been a livery stable north of Männedorf. There are fountains and troughs in many places with running water that is drinkable! People drink from them as fountains and collect in bottles.

Zürich Hauptbahnhof / main train station.

In the Zürich Hauptbahnhof some great art hanging overhead: this is a 3 dimensional grid of lights that changes color and "shape" constantly in varying rhythms.

Same Zürich Hauptbahnhof art, different  flavor of the same piece!

Zürich 'rive gauche'- the artists' side of the river, shops and cafes.

Ursula Schwendimann's Atemschule Studio first day of workshop.

Sunset dinner balmy open air on Lake Zürich.

Oh to be in Switzerland in the time of poppies and peonies and asparagus!

Ursula and her partner Juerg on the porch of their newly remodeled 1960's modern 'townhouse'.

Ursula showing us her push button pressure cooker with horizontal racks in it!

Ursula and Michael basking at the summer home of Carl Jung on Lake Zürich.

Swiss scenery and architecture.

Ursula's peppered strawberry desserts!

On to Ireland driving on the left!

Hazy green quilted hills.

Irish Seed Savers Garden near Lough Derg, County Clare / on their own root apple orchard. (lots of vase pruning!)

The ubiquitous 'polytunnel' at Irish Seed Savers Garden: only way to ripen tomatoes or produce an early crop of seed!

Archetypal Irish country lane.

Nell and Tamrind walking East Clare Way, a (public) commons that crests the hills west of Lough Derg, County Clare

Lough Derg, Mountshannon

Tamarind: live storybook dog with stick, in motion.

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