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 Dwight Peck's personal website
Winter 2012-2013
Still better and better
We'd got into the semi-retirement habit of traveling touristically whenever, in the post-Bush era of Global Warming, the snow in the Jura mountains was absent yet again. This year, all the snow came back. And we kept traveling as well.
You may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go. Click on the photos to proceed.
Summer's over -- let's get the show on the road
Féchy en fête, September 2012 |
Pre-snow autumn hiking in the Jura |
Marlowe and Young William in Switzerland, October 2012
First hikes |
On the Belle Epoque steamship La Suisse |
The Château de Chillon |
Leysin hiking |
Hiking, and the Servion Zoo |
The Château de Gruyères |
     
A week in Madrid and, mainly, Toledo, mid-November 2012
A stopover in Madrid |
Toledo sights |
    
Brief interregnum
Various December hikes
A few weeks in Sicily and the hunt for Inspector Montalbano film sets, Dec. 2012
Palermo and Monreale Cathedral |
Agrigento and the Valley of the Temples |
Kristin and Salvo Montalbano |
Erice and the west coast |
     
     
Snowshoeing in the Jura mountains, January - March 2013
Fontaine Valier |
Excellent new snow |
The most and the best snow we've had here in many years
Wandering for New Year's |
Pré de Rolle hike, early January |
Forest of Grande Rolat, early Jan. |
La Barillette, mid-January |
Fontaine Valier a few times |
Early February hikes |
Mid-February hikes |
Féchy |
La Foirausaz in late February |
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A long weekend in Lyon, France, early March 2013
Lovely downtown Lyon |
The Fine Arts Museum |
Dining out in Lyon |
Dining out again in Lyon |
  
Supplemental snowshoeing adventures in the Jura, March-May 2013
No snowshoes in St-Prex, early March |
Marchairuz in early March 2013 |
Poking about near Marchairuz |
More Marchairuz poking, mid-March |
Grande Baume du Pré d'Aubonne |
The source of the Toleure |
Hunting for chamois tracks, late March 2013 |
Hapless map-reading near Marchairuz, late March 2013 |
Retracing our steps, backwards this time, still late March 2013 |
Retracing our steps even farther, Marchairuz, April Fools' Day 2013 |
Previously unexplored paths near Marchairuz, early April 2013 |
Kristin and newly explored paths near Marchairuz, mid-April 2013 |
On tiptoes in the forest, May 2013 |
Miscellaneous May walks, 2013 |
Rainy Grand Cunay, 15 May |
Holidays in Ferrara and Ravenna (and Domodossola), 17-26 May 2013
Beautiful Ferrara |
Apollinare in Classe, in Ravenna |
Splendid Empress Theodora in San Vitale |
Piazza Mercato in Domodossola |
      
Additional wintry things long after winter was over
Straight up the wet woods, 1 June 2013 |
Mont Tendre on 2 June 2013 |
What's next?
Kristin's already scouting the situation in northern Wisconsin, USA, and next week we'll be joining her at Spring Hill near Madison for some Shakespeare stuff and then up north for the canoeing, hydrobiking and what not, and old friends. A bunch of work we'd hoped would be wrapped up by now will be coming along with us, but we don't work as fast as we used to do. In August Young Marlowe, Young Dmitri, and Even Younger William will be joining us on the lake, we hope Lowell and Sheila will be joining us, too, and in September we'll pass by DC for a visit with astrophysicists Alison and Mark in Charlottesville and some more plays, we've been promised, and hiking in the Blue Mountains -- and then back home and who knows?
Perhaps the snow will be coming in again.
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