Swiss Alps - Ski?

Take one Christmas tree, add a garden hose of water, and move it to the Swiss Alps. Hey Presto, instant sculpture.














Here's the train we took to Grindelwald.






Here's the lovely refurbished mansion we stayed at -- from our guide of charming Chambre d'Hotes. We also ate dinner here -- all was delicious, and the host was most gracious, sharing stories of local history and his challenges with the French administrative processes in getting the financing he has needed to restore this local treasure. It was cold when we arrived, but we awoke to this freshly fallen snow blanket. The drive home to Paris was quite nerve-wracking. We were accompanied by snow ploughs for about 50 km of the trip west to Paris. By the time we reached Paris, we were well out of the snow, and back to sunny, wintry weather.
Trundling our way up to Grindelwald on the cog-train -- it was too misty, foggy to climb any higher.