It looks like the beginning of something beautiful.

Album  Rottenmann

We bought us a house in Rottenmann.
A healthy colony of bats is indicative of a well balanced ecosystem in the Alps.
We have been warned not to leave the windows open at night.

I found the text under the picture in German and used Google to translate. It said that the villagers got hammered and tried to torch the city on 4th of July 1679, gracefully intervened by the deities. I asked Juri if we are moving intentionally in sanctuary of drunks. Juri said that Google translates LIGHTENING like HAMMERING.

Rottenmann is a town in Styria in Austria, near the Rottenmanner Tauern. Rottenmann was first referred to in an document in 927. It received its town charter in 1279 from King Rudolf von Habsburg.

I almost died in Sulawesi, Indonesia, when I was 2.

Album  Sulawesi 2012

The boy who cried "no brakes"

Hope no one else got you a mauled carcass

Album  My favorite Bear cartoons

Caution Parachuting Bears

German price for online communication in the category "Multichannel communication"

Album  Teddy Bears United

Picking mushrooms in the fox

Album  My favorite Bear cartoons

Album  Schladminger Tauern 2015

Baba Marta (Nikolas) came in Vienna this yearagain! It's a tradition to have him bring us gifts for March 1st.

This year he brought us Poire Williams - the brandy that grows on trees.

It is my namesake today. It is custom to ride a horse. Dzibelia is not very sure about this...
Here we are in Refugio de Siscaro in the Pyrenees in 2013

Album  Trans Pyrenees 2013

Riding a bull in Martoli, Uttarakhand, India

Album  India, The Himalayas 2017

Riding a baby yak in Mudh, Pin valley, Himachal Pradesh, India

Album  India, The Himalayas 2017

Riding a turkey in Cuispes, Chachapoyas, Peru

Album  South America 2014

Riding a cow in Schladminger Tauern, Austrian Central Alps

Album  Schladminger Tauern 2015

It's not not spring yet. I just need to go to the toilet.

Snowdrops in February, ohoto by Anton Donchev

Bears are getting busy early this year ~ Cartoon by Sergey Elkin

More  Bear Cartoons

On this date we are commemorating the life and mysterious death of 9 hikers in the Urals mountains 59 years ago.
Read more the most infamous cold case that took place in the mountains.
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Ladies and Gentlemen this is your captain speaking

Album  Airborne

Time to go home...

Photo is from album  Corsica 2015

The prototype for Geoffrey Gersten Beekeper

Album  Vegas 2018

Trek to Sheepbone and Quarry Canyons near Lake Mead. We scrambled up the Sheepbone canyon and rapped down the Quarry canyon. The trail was marked with sheep bones - surprise, surprise! Best Martin Luther King's day!

Album  Sheepbone Canyon

A bear gotta eat

Album  Black Bear Diner

... with black silverware

Album  Vegas 2018

More photos in album  Red Rock Canyon

More photos in album  Vegas 2018

Good bye 2017. What a glorious 2018!

Album  Terrace Canyon