I always admired this window as we drove past on the way to the store with the little figures sitting on the ledge. They were huddled so close together up on the roof level of the building. Today they are no longer there. Perhaps they did fall off. They disappeared after the building had been renovated.
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Black & White
I went for a wheelie in my chair and found myself on the top steps leading to the cathedral. With a zoom lens ready I could focus on the main place in Solothurn from above, the local town. In the middle is a little hut which now has a carnival decoration on the top. It is the hut where hot roasted chestnuts are sold throughout the Winter. On either side there are shops and at the front a restaurant. There are always families meandering around the town. Traffic is allowed but only for bringing people to the hotels, or for handicapped, like myself, with their car. The walks are paved with cobblestones as in the town when originally built.
A Photo a Week Challenge: Depth of Field
A Photo a Week Challenge: Vanishing Point
Our old town of Solothurn is full of alleys like this one.
Here is another one
A Photo a Week Challenge: The Great Outdoors
It was a difficult choice to make because wherever I look in my adopted country I enjoy the great outdoors. Whether a river, a lake or a mountain range, as the Jura in the photo, it is great and breathtaking. This photo is taken just across the road in our village, The Jura mountains are in our back yard.
Even the towns of Switzerland such as Bern, Zürich or Geneva for example have their charm. Towns built many years ago and still showing the original buildings. New buildings are only allowed with planning permission to fit into the surroundings.
Our local town of Solothurn, founded by the Romans, still has its cobblestone streets and the buildings fit together in the core.
A walk through the town, or in my case with the wheelchair, always reminds me of the wonderful assembly of the buildings that fit perfectly in their own style.
A Photo a Week: On the Horizon
From our “house” mountain Weissenstein in the Jura looking towards South and the Bernese Overland.
A Photo a Week Challenge: New
We have the original hospital building and then they built a new one and now they have built yet another new hospital building for our local Swiss town of Solothurn. . It is not yet open for patients, but will be next year.
A Photo a Week Challenge: Eyes
A Photo A Week Challenge: Lit from Within
A souvenir from Sweden showing Läckö Castle in Lidköping. My husband worked for many years for a Swedish company and often had business trips to Sweden. This was a souvenir he brought home showing details of the castle which he visited.
The castle itself is very old Läckö Castle
A Photo a Week Challenge: Things with Wings
Got it on the River Aare in Solothurn, Switzerland. One of the highlights of bird photography when you catch it in the right moment at the right time. Even swans like to spread their wings now and again.
Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss 