Big event tomorrow!

Hey hey! My updated website looks like it is going to be ready!!
Very exciting nerdy activity!
Of course it is not all going to be like it should be, but that is what life is!

Here are some things I did this summer instead of working on my website: Natural dying methods to imprint plants onto cloth and paper.

Boiling T-shirts with rust & leaves!

Wild geranium came out groovy!

Hammering it in was cool too!

Walked 200km on the N.W. Coast of Spain!

Biiiig backpack, for camping!

My what long legs I have! 

All the better for...hmmmm...wonder what?!

Warm weather in winter hike

Fully is a nature discovery wonderland!

The nationaly protected bulbocode were out all over the place. Was like walking on a fairy tale path though the forest! 

The contrasts were blindingly beautiful, with white summits poking up around us, and the limestone Pierre Avoi pinnacle.

I read today that we are having the dryest winter in 50yrs in Suisse Romande. The grass here seems to agree! This is the Rhône river valley, looking towards the Upper Valais region.

Walking on granite with views of snowy mountains.

The color of the Rhône is beautiful, again some wild color contrasts with the spectacular Catogne summit here.

Cold winter skin needs calendula salve

Making homemade calendula / soucis creams in the dead of winter!
What better way to pamper myself and my friends when it is minus degrees outside?

Sometimes I wonder why I collect all these flowers and stuff in summer...  

These calendula flowers spent all summer macerating in olive oil in the val de Bagnes summer sun.

Hot mix of calendula and lavender oil with our beeswax and honey!!! Almost want to eat it.

All that is left to do is slather it on!!

Skuleskogen in Västernorrland

Such fantastic local tour guides!

A fun and interesting way to mark the water levels from thousands of years ago.

We hiked up to a cave before going to the top!

Lakes and sea marking different altitudes.

I learned the difference between a birch and an aspen! Such cool trees and we are lucky to see them changing colors! Every now and then a red maple pops in.

Red granite is underneath everything. The roots here are hugging it and the tree is still alive, just got itself into a more comfy position for when it snows or gets super windy!

Very well explained info!

Me at the top drinking a rose hip soup, nyponskalmjol soppa!

Eating wild foods La Tzoumaz

A wikked hot wild day was had by the cows, the views and us picking our couscous and pesto lunch from the wild unkempt ski fields of La Tzoumaz. 

Thanks to La Maison de la Forêt for letting us invade your kitchen!

Fresh alpine serac with wildherb pesto and edible flowers for decoration!

Wild norwegian spruce buds tea with wild flowers! Beautiful and super refreshing too!

Couscous with wild spinach, wild thym, sarriette, daisies, common berce and whatever else was at the bottom of the forraging bags!

Cows chilling under the télésiège!

I just love the contrast of going up and over the Col de Croix De Coeur from Verbier to La Tzoumaz, which I often still call Les Mayens de Riddes. 

The views down onto the Rhône Valley are amazing!

NDD : Nature Deficit Disorder

Spending time in places like this with more flowers than your eyes can focus on or brain can comprehend should take care of any nature deficit disorder anyone is feeling!

I hope you can get out and feel the air in a place like this soon!

Wild foraging in the Alps

How great a feeling to pick your own "apéro" out of a field at 1800 meters with a bunch of people who only know what a dandilion and a tulip are!

And the final touch is decorating it all with wildflowers!

Dandilion flowers

Wild spinach

Alchemille

Tastes like.....uuhhh, well it is hard to say really, which is another fun aspect! Naming tastes is really tough! Yummy!

We had some groovy alpenhorns to help us cut everything up and prepare it on a yummy local bread.

Bird watching Pierre Avoi

We took a hike in the snow and clouds today to try and see some alpine birds. The snow was fresh so we saw lots of animal tracks. 

These belong to a big sized bird. Probably the Tetras as we heard its call just around the corner

A fresh pulsatilla vernalis, fuzzy!

Some marmot tracks were visible as well. Check out the claws it has for digging.

Sunny on the Rhone valley side!

Learn about wild flowers

Wildflower Workshops every Wed and Sat of May and June!

Happy flowers! 

Do you know what is in your flowery bouquets? Are the beauties you are picking edible? Are they toxic? Should some be dried for making an infusion when you have a sore throat in December?

Would you like to learn these things, and discover what to add to a salad or omlette for a unique zing at the same time?

Well then let's go for a walk together!

Learn how to pick and eat raw stinging nettles!

I will be available to do these workshops every Wednesday and Saturday in May & June with you.

If you would like to go on a different day call or email me to organise it!

Make gold like the alchemists were with these diamonds of water!

Snowshoe Zinal Glacier

Nestled back in the upper valley of Anniviers is a huge glacier (actually it is where 3 glaciers come together).

Up past the Besso and towards the Pointe de Zinal...this is a trip for people who like to walk and take time looking at ice falls.

There is nothing very steep, but it is a gradual uphill and the air is fresh from the proximity to the glaciers! Perfect on a warm spring day!

The entrance to the glacier. The ice is not cold and feels strangely like plastic!

Little humbled snowshoers infront of the glacier entrance. In the winter the meltwater stream coming out is small, so you can enter and walk around under the ice!

Exciting on the inside! 

Orange birch trees close to Zinal. Not sure why they are this color...Any ideas?