Endless Blue, here at the edge of Lake Neusiedl, south of Vienna. This is another mobile phone shot, taken mid-March (and cleaned up a bit). The weather today is just like this.
Freedom Bridge Opened a year ago, this pedestrian and bicycle bridge connects Austria (Schloss Hof) to Slovakia (Devínska Nová Ves - near Bratislava) over the March/Morava River. The original bridge was built in 1771, but often destroyed - most recently by the iron curtain. Twenty-five years after the end of the Soviet Union, it still feels strange to be able to just stroll across what used to be a heavily defended border. (This is a telephoto shot - you are seeing about 300m of bridge, so the slopes are not really quite so steep.)
Practice Session The same bull as in yesterday's shot, sparring with a younger one of his herd. They lined up on either side of the log and quietly locked horns and tried different head shakes. Update: I was about 10m away. And they were not aggressive at all. It was all very slow, as if the older one was saying "see, if you lock horns this way, I can turn you on your side. Keep your head up in close encounters. It was almost a dance.
