St. Wolfgang in winter

This is a statue of St. Wolfgang of Regensburg. This statue stands behind a church named after him, which is in the town named after him, in the Salzkammergut region of Austria. He holds his bishop's staff in the right hand, and a statue of the church in the left. Legend has it that St. Wolfgang fought the devil with an axe. He threw the axe at the devil, and the spot where it landed is where the church was built.

I took this in January of 2006-- it was cold, crisp, quiet day...the kind of winter day that usually exists only in a writer's mind. I was really struck by the beauty of the cape of snow that covered the statue.

Another photo tomorrow...