This has been a busy travel week with visits to wineries in several cantons. The many faces of Switzerland’s landscape are a never-ending pleasure, even in winter. Here is part of my visual travelogue, from vineyards to vines to cellars and wines. You won’t see many people in these photos; I’m saving them for now, and they will show up here another day. Be a traveler and drift through a Swiss February with me. Enjoy!
A snow ribbon of animal prints on the slope coming down from the woods behind my Alpine home 
Lake Geneva above Montreux and Lavaux. The winter sunset brings to mind the famous “three suns” of Lavaux (the sun, the reflection on the lake, the stone walls that hold the heat at night) 
the dramatically steep Combe de Noutse above Fully, Valais; checking the vines with Valentina Andrei 
Muted tones of a vineyard near Glion, above Montreux, in canton Vaud 
A vineyard sits just to the edge of this photo, invisible now in the shadows while these trees pick up the gold of late afternoon February sun 
This mother sheep in Wittnau, canton Aargau, was not too happy that I wanted to see her lamb. A little nudge and the lamb hid itself behind her ample shape. 
Malolactic fermentation is nearly finished (Aargau winery) 
15th century valued wine cellar, Lipp in Maienfeld, canton Graubünden 
Butterflies and bees are out already, in Fläsch, Graubünden
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