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The fields and orchards of Austria

Wheat ripens on a farm in the Austrian Mühlviertel.

SUMMIT COUNTY — Austria has come a long way from the cliches portrayed in The Sound of Music, with a vibrant modern cultural scene and strong tech and industrial sector, but the country still takes pride in supporting local agriculture. In a cider pub near Linz, the kitchen featured a blackboard showing that almost all the food is produced from farms within a 10 mile radius, and the inns of the fruit-growing Wachau region take pride in serving locally grown apricots and plums in their sumptuous deserts.

A ladybug in a healthy cornfield in Upper Austria.

A sunflower field in Upper Austria.

Wine grapes growing among ancient castle ruins in the Wachau.

Orchards and pastures just a few miles outside Linz, Austria.

Neatly groomed alpine pastures and hayfields are the backdrop for a paraglider in the Austrian Alps.

Tree-ripened apricots along the Danube between Linz and Vienna.

Plums hang low along a stony path in Dürnstein, Austria.

A row of sunflowers divides two fields in the Inn River Valley near Salzburg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. beautiful – colours, subjects, compositions

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