Der Wechsel der Jahreszeiten...Changing Seasons

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Thanksgiving night we got our first bonafide snowfall with another dusting of snow last night.  It is a beautiful sunny Saturday so Tom suggested I go for a walk and capture some pictures of our first snow. In keeping with the summer walk pictures I posted a couple months ago, I did go for a walk in October and got some pictures of the fall colors but I never got those posted.  I figured I'd post the fall and winter pictures together to show the changing of the seasons in a month's time.  I tried to select ones taken in the same general locations.  Enjoy!
Pedestrian bridge near our house
Same bridge just standing on the opposite side
This field below is where some of the flower fields were this summer.
There is a hill to the side where a couple kids were sledding.
In October there were still a lot of vegetable stands.
Looking back towards cart with the squash

Just down the road

Crossing Autobahn 8 - Looking towards Munich

Foot bridge that crosses A8
View from bridge
In October the fields were already pretty empty but there was still some activity.

Final stalks of corn
Field where corn was just a month ago

One of the paths I regularly walk goes past this horse stable.

U5 train tracks
Opposite view looking across field toward train tracks










Comments

  1. JeanineNovember 28, 2010 at 5:59 AM

    great pics. thanks for sharing! love ya jeanine

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  2. NicoleNovember 28, 2010 at 10:31 AM

    Thanks Jeanine! It kind of worked out not getting around to posting the fall pictures. I liked seeing the pictures grouped together. Love you!

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