Autumn in Luxembourg's woods

A long time has passed since the last post. Gratefully I keep travelling and wondering around with my camera but laziness prevented me from posting my favourite photos here. While trying to catch up with "older" photos, I'll start by inviting you to view and comment my selection of pictures below just shoot today.

Arriving from the Mediterranean mild Autumn and Winter seasons, I keep surprising with all the beauty northern latitudes provide when it comes to celebrate seasons. The countryside in Luxembourg and specially its small parcels of woods paint the season with a pallete of yellows and reds that can only depress you for not being able to capture all the beauty you try to get with your camera.

The selection below comes from a 3h drive in South East Luxembourg and invites you to put your boots and go for a walk in the woods!

snow changes

December, first snow fall. Both for the season and for me. No other weather phenomenon can produce such dramatic change in so few days. Ok, forget hurricanes and diluviums. Those are nature accidents. A rainfall brings new life to the vegetation, wind blows leafs away and can even throw branches or trees to the ground, an hot summer can, in a few weeks dry everything to the bone. They all cause changes. That’s life. That’s nature.

This path I have walked with my camera was a dark alleyway one week ago. I couldn’t distinguish the next curve unless I reached it. Resilient leafs were still hanging and covering my sight from other leafs. Shadows were hiding places I wasn’t supposed to see. I would feel being the first in weeks to walk that path.

With snow, everything changed. I wasn’t for sure the first of the day. The trail was telling me that. Only the most resilient leafs were standing and the shadows were now gone reflecting all of the day’s light. I could now see the curves and where they lead.

It kept snowing, many other leafs gave up, each curve now brings a new option and shadows became a new challenge.

Howald, Luxembourg