The heritage, local observations, taste the nature

Vineyards in winter

Cut the branches

The Lavaux vineyard in a landscape under the snow to discover

vignes-Lavaux-Epesses-hiver-www-natscape-ch-53

When the vine is asleep, the winemaker is the spot! Although the vine is in the resting phase, the sap down, this is the time of pruning the branches, to prepare the future vines spring to resume its activity, the vine will then "cry" sign of the first fine day .

A stroll through the vines in winter we discover this work, as well as the magic of the vineyard terraces in the oblique light of cold weather.

Wine tourism and wine discoveries

The dry stones walls in Jura mountains

raquette-marchairuz-mur-wwwnatscapech

abeilles-megachiles-Chernex-www-natscape-ch-3

Champ Babau honey, Swiss Riviera

miel-Champ-Babau-www-natscape-ch

Ice story in Les Avants, Swiss Riviera

hockey-can

An old history of sport has started in our region of the Swiss Riviera. Les Avants have been the birthplace of many sports of ice and snow, including ice hockey, which was born here in the front, then Caux. The Montreux area was very important for tourism at the beginning of last century, but also for sport, arts and personalities that there are lingering.

A very nice article on this story ice link (in french): Carton Rouge du 27 avril

More info on ice-hockey

Wikipedia

The tavillons wood plates secrets

tavillions-pasquier-orgevaux-nb-m289671610

The first days on mountains pastures

jmg-P7150015

Jean-Marie on the pastures, Gruyère

En route pour l'alpe