WEATHER WAS GOOD -- a perfect day to enjoy people out in the healthy mountain air. Starting at the top of the Furi gondola, we found a mountain restaurant in full swing, with hiking families, bicyclists, and folks dining and relaxing in the mid-day sun.
Following the sound of a chain saw, we ambled around to the side of the building, where a woodcarver was finishing off an eagle for display in a mountain garden.
Walking out into the valley, we passed mountain farms with well tended vegetable gardens
and quintessential Swiss window boxes hanging from the balcony.
Farmers were out in the fields above, making a second cutting of hay. If you look carefully, you can find hikers along an upper trail and see a few brown specks that are cows in the fields beyond the trail. In the mountains, you hear the belled cows long before you see them.
The flower-filled meadows frustrate our attempts to capture them, and the walk home takes us past barns and sheds, in endless Alpine pastures.
and quintessential Swiss window boxes hanging from the balcony.
Climbing higher, we caught a view of Zermatt down in the valley, with stalks of purple fireweed in the foreground.
Next we passed through a shady forest carpeted with a beautiful weed -- would love some help identifying it!
Our destination was the hamlet of Zmutt, which is perched on a cliff overhanging a deep cleft created by centuries of snowmelt (the Zmuttbach or stream) flowing down from above.
The flower-filled meadows frustrate our attempts to capture them, and the walk home takes us past barns and sheds, in endless Alpine pastures.
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