but they will probably be better very soon. The thermometer registers below zero every night here, so they say, and it is probably correct for one hears the big trees cracking in the frost and the swiftly flowing Meuse is rapidly becoming blocked with ice. The days however are lovely with bright sunshine + ground covered with snow. We have been taking at least an hour's good walk every day and at the end even without a coat the air seems quite balmy. My photographic efforts have been so successful as they were at Bonn but I send you a couple of snapshots which may interest you. On a view looking up the river shows one of the little wayside shrines under the