The view above is of Davos looking south toward the Tinzinhorn in the distance.
It is the same view shown in the painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner below:
"Davos mit Kirche (Davos im Sommer) painted in 1925.
The distinctive shape of the Tinzinhorn is clearly visible in the middle horizon.
Kirchner was a leader of the German Expressionist movement who left Germany and spent the last decades of his life in Davos.
Dahlias above and dahlia gardener below.
We left Bivio very early August 10 and started the day with 5 kilometers of hiking along glacial debris in the early morning mist. It was about 5 degrees Celsius.
Bivio is one of the highest towns in Switzerland, at 1700 meters. The Catholic Church there dates back to the 1200's and the carved alter took almost a decade to make in the 1300's.
The Septimer Pass is now inhabited just by cows; it used to be a busy trading route.
After taking a bus from Lugano to the Maloja Pass below St Moritz, on August 9 we left hiking north. Casaccia is around 1000 meters and the path is an old trading road that dates back to Roman times.
Above, Alan stands by pallets of roofing stones.
Lugano is probably the largest city in the Italian speaking Swiss canton of Ticino.
It has lots of banks, second home apartments, surrounding slopes, vistas and sun.
