friday flash

I am still an "old blogger" since I cannot switch to the new version and blogger keeps finding excuses like: (skip the boring part, scroll half way down to find the pics in the second part of this post !)

Could not switch you to the new Blogger
Thanks for your interest in the new version of Blogger! Unfortunately, we cannot switch your Blogger account at this time, because one or more of your blogs cannot be moved. Please see our help article for more information.

The help article says the following: (I know this is very boring but I want to save a copy of it, just because I love blogger so much...)
Why can't I switch to the new version of Blogger?
While the new version of Blogger is no longer in beta, some users with certain types of blogs will not immediately be able to switch to it. We'll be adding support for these blogs as soon as possible, so everyone can join in the fun. But for now, if you have a very large blog (more than a couple thousand posts + comments), you'll need to hold off for a bit.

Note that, even if your blog is eligible to switch, you may not have the link to do so on your dashboard. We are starting out by just switching over a limited number of accounts, but we'll add more and more as time goes on. However, if you still want to try out the new version of Blogger, what you can do is to visit beta.blogger.com and create a new account. Later on, you'll be able to merge this account with your original Blogger account.

Thanks for your patience, and we promise it will be worth the wait!
Since blogger just ate my post and I had to recover what was left of it *sigh* I am just hoping I can find my blog when I come back in early february... In the meantime here are some pics from the ski holiday which ended a week ago. These are the beautiful French Alps, those mountains have a very special effect on me since I grew up in a place having mountains as a protective element and they were my point of orientation too.

First of all a sunset, the pic doesn't do justice, it was truly breathtaking!

This is the chairlift we took every day to take us up to the very top so that we could ski down to the next valley.


A view from a village from the ski slope. Look at that groomed hill in front of you, just delightful skiing!

This is the tree we could see from our condo:

But it could look like this too! on such cloudy, foggy days I didn't ski and went out for walks and some pics.

But gray days don't allow as beautiful pics as sunny days do. Therefore I played with my camera and took this self-portrait: