abandoned trailer - would be perfect to use as some kind of hang-out place!
there were also days that did not involve snow during this winter, but provided the usual sometimes very grey and drab winter uniformity that many people do not like. while the darkness can get to you if it lasts longer than a few days, it can also, if in the right mindset, be a sort of cozy one.
we have a public barbeque spot in our village that i checked out on this grey day. one can vividly imagine it being a nice place when the local festivities take place here. sometimes they do bbq evenings here or mulled wine parties. i have not been to any of these happenings yet, but perhaps in the future! summer is ahead of us and might give more chances for barbeques and get togethers.
i love the very out of place sliding doors they attached to the hut 😁
it's also a good place just to hang out and maybe have a picknick or lunch. even after a long hike you could return to this place and lounge around a little.
a little tree farming property. some of these look a little shaggy and weirdly grown, but i am sure there are also some that would serve as nice christmas trees.
again i found myself outside of the village, checking out some fields above the basbach valley.
strinz-trinitatis is well-known for having sort of semi-fertile lands, we have a lot of meadows around here that are not untilled and used for crops. instead you will find horses, sheep, cows and goats in all kinds of directions, which keep the grass low and contribute to keeping oligotrophic grasslands intact. often very rare plants and flowers pop up on these meadows, which are also important for insects, critters and other animals.
view towards basbacher berg and the radio tower.
i found a secret bee lair!
beware the bees! and the ladybugs. but not during this part of year. no stings to be feared in january.
some parts of our local woods are very rocky and i love exploring that! of course you gotta be careful when you climb up the slopes, but for some of these rocks there are also paths where you can reach them from above.
i love the views down from these rocky slopes. 
i always admire the ability of trees and bushes to grow on rocky underground.
a little road passes through the basbach valley below.
moss and stone, one of my most favourite nature combinations.
the rocks we have locally are mostly schistous rocks. in past times these rocks were hewn for the local population's houses, especially to cover the roofs.
ever in a awe with the ragged and cragged composition of these!
another favourite detail of mine on rocks: lichen! it's super hard to determine the correct specimen with lichen, they are not super investigated and they can look wildly different from what has been photographically documented. as much as i'd like to give a correct name to this lichen - i may refrain from doing so, because i just couldn't find anything that remotely looked like this.
i might give a guess that this is a whitewash lichen, though i am not certain, since this particular specimen likes to grow on wood rather than rock. it is said that it can happen, though!
looking up at these rocks sometimes revealed red lichens, too!
leaving rocky surroundings for the woods again...
wood stacks like this are always found in our woods. sometimes they resemble silhouettes of mountains!
i like this image. i accidentally made it with a special effect - miniature photo. it blurs out surroundings and focusses on a special point, which you determine on your own.
wood mountain.
eventually i reached a higher point in the woods where in recent years they had to fell a lot of trees because of droughts and the infestations of bark beetles ( they mainly overtook spruces ).
since it started to drizzle quite some, i decided to finally go back home. here's a view on strinz-trinitatis from higher up above the basbacher berg.
found a little hut with bee hives around it.
when i returned back to the basbach valley i met some favourite fellows munching on the last christmas trees. it seemed to have been a feast for them 😉
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