Today would be food and not sights :) Though Schwarz-Wälder-Kirsch Torte originated in Germany, this treat is well enjoyed here too, and I bet on your part of the world too. I have partiality to the taste of this cake, I prefer the sweeter variation, those that I mostly had in the Philippines as those I had here are sour for my taste.

Recipe for black forest cherry cake is here.

On the other hand, Sacher Torte would be the one rightly called as an Austrian cake. If the above cake includes cherries, this one have apricot jam. Recipe for Sacher Torte is here.

Just a few more weeks and this year's spring is up, here on the Northern hemisphere anyway. So this is to say thank you to all Today's Flowers' participants for showing all the beautiful flowers from your part of the world. Thanks!!!

Don't be deceived! In the morning it gets really dark, the clouds too heavy as if waiting for the right time to pour down. A few hours later, blueness prevails!

Let me bore you with snow photos for this week!

We have been living in our current place for more or less 5 years now, everyday, this is the street (straße) that the kids and I thread. On all four weathers, we walk on the pavement, on the stones and salt on it, on the mud or rainwater, on dried leaves and on snow.

Opposite this passage and our compound is a playground deliberately build lower on the ground. This is where the photos from yesterday were. The slope makes for a perfect sled hill when ice thickens.

The trees looks like this in autumn...taken from the side of the playground with a view of our building at the background. So which season do you like better?

It snowed the past days, enough for some snowman and sledding...actually sliding down a slope. The playground opposite our building is best for this. So the kids had a blast on the weekend!