September 12-15. These are pictures from and around our condominium in Villars, Switzerland. There is great hiking through the Alps. You can see a fresh dusting of snow that arrive the night before we left. We talked to a couple over dinner one night who raved about the skiing--from village to village, stopping for lunch or snacks with great powder conditions.

The food in the area was great--fondue and raclette. There is a small family-run restuarant tucked back against a large granite mountain (like a minuature Yosemite valley) where Ken has been going for 25 years. Ken, not one to exaggerate, thinks it is one of the best restuarants he has been to, the food rivaling those he has been to from Napa to Paris.