Winter Colours, and a story rec

[selenak]

The rec first. If, like me, the recent trailer for The Borgias has reminded you how interesting that Renaissance family was (when not written as cackling fiends), you'll enjoy this great vignette about Lucrezia and Cesare:

On Leavetaking

Now, this weekend brought us the first snow this year in Bamberg, and I had to take some pictures today when on a quick walk (a long one wasn't in the cards since I'm not in the best of health right now):











St. Michael's, framed by trees. The only building you'll see in this post.





Now for some trees that were full of cherries and apples earlier this year:



Currently more prone to feature crows. Were I in Munich, I could look up appropriate Ted Hughes quotes for you.







But it's not all blue, black and white. Look here:







And then were birds again:









In conclusion:

Comments

[jamalov29]

I enjoyed seeing your pictures. I love Winter sights !
I liked a lot the first pic of St. Michael's framed by trees and the frozen pink rose .
We had snow early around but it melted although it is still freezing cold.

[selenak]

It's been snowing the entire day today, so maybe we'll get a really white December this year.

The trees as a natural frame were so striking that I couldn't resist taking that picture! If you're interested in more pictures of my beautiful hometown at different seasons, they're here:

http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/tag/bamberg