On windless days there'd often be nothing to hear but the sound of your brain over-driving your ear drums to try and pick up the faintest vestige of sound. True silence - the absence of all sound - can be quite painful!
The summer house sits on a small island with the river threading around it. I can imagine when it was new it was a great place to sit and fish or sit and watch the river flow by. But by the time I took this photo it appears it's best days were behind it.
I love the way the sun is lighting up the snow on the distant mountains, their ruggedness being apparent from the lines of light and dark.
Eiger is translated as Ogre, Mönch as Monk and Jungfrau as Virgin (or Maiden). The Junfrau is the highest at 4158m, then the Mönch at 4099m and the Eiger at 3970m, though it's the Eiger that has all the climbing lore associated with it in general and it's north face, or Nordwand, in particular.
This is a shot of the partial solar eclipse of December 4, 1983. Well, partial from where I was in Exeter, England.
This shot was taken many years ago - 1983 actually. It's a scan of a slide. I took it from my college dorm window, looking west across the Exe Valley.