Monthly reviews
One of the great delights of my life is how random it is. I’ve been keeping track of the randomness for a while, and share little monthly updates about what I’ve been up to.
2023
Another year and another fresh start to a series of monthly recaps. (The complete set from 2022 is here.)
February 2023 was cold and seemingly endless.
This month’s set of photos is especially random, but that’s the whole point; not just of the ongoing photo series here on my website, but also in my life. The more varied and random, the better for me.
It seems as though there will be a fair amount of travelling for me this year, both around Switzerland (which is pretty normal for Jo and for me in our time off), and abroad. After visiting England in March, I was back again in April to visit Mum; later in the month, I rode the…
Pottering at home, a trip to Scotland and photographing wild flowers in Switzerland.
Making more of an effort to publish moving pictures, including one from Dartmoor in June.
Lots of work stopped me from going out so much, but we did get in a great trip to canton Wallis.
An unfestive 1st August, barbecuing in a mountain valley, and walking around a lovely lake near Gstaad.
A familiar array of “adventures” which I feel fortunate to regularly enjoy.
2022
It seems to stick in my mind that by the time we get to January, we’re well into winter. But the snow and ice often doesn’t arrive where I live until January or February, although that doesn’t preclude it being pretty damned cold from time to time. January this year marked the arrival of my…
Mainly speaking, the month of February is a cold one, when my thoughts start turning to days out and summer temperatures. That being said, I still managed to get out on some trips, with the main goal of getting some exercise.
As the previous post for April went down well, I thought I’d work backwards and start adding a few new little galleries of photos to show what I’ve been up to each month. Here’s March 2022 in pictures.
It’s been a while since I thought of sharing anything on my website. Things have been very busy, both with work, trips here and there and with getting our balcony ready for summer. Instead of waffling on, I thought I’d try a new approach for a change: a brief visual review of what I got…
May is a funny month for me. The countryside is green and lush, with lots of flowers in the meadows and a pleasant mix of cooling rain and warming sunshine, but I often feel a little frustration because the higher mountains are often still covered with slushy snow. This year, I’ve been spending a lot…
My main photographic focus in June was our trip to Brittany in north-western France.
Hiking and keeping cool in the mid-summer alpine heat.
A lovely month full of experiences, but fewer random photographs than usual.
The gradual arrival of autumn; clouds clinging to the mountains, fresher air and a wider variety of colours in the landscape. My favourite time of the year is coming.
A trip to England, a lack of autumn feeling despite the vivid colours and learning how to set a fire.
Little photography and a big loss.
The “random things” posts are primarily about random stuff I’ve seen in the course of a month. The random stuff I saw in December was spread over four countries.
