The tree is situated next to the New City Hall, and stands watch over the Christkindlmarkt below.  Marienplatz has been Munich's central square since 1158.

On our trip up to Munich, we took the road less traveled, westward from Innsbruck rather than east.  We were rewarded by the scenery and the lack of highway driving monotony, but then it started snowing.  And then the snow plow trucks began zipping by.  

This sculpture is inside the foyer of an extremely ornate Catholic church.  Death, depicted by the skeleton on the right, is reaching over with a pair of scissors and cutting the life string of the poor chap on the right, ending his life.  Bit of somber reminder of life's fickleness, right before you head in for the Sunday service.  

A duplicate of the Florence Boar.  I'm drinking Gluwein, and don't mind the cold so much.  

Ok this is not Munich but Stenghe Falls near Vipiteno.  Beautiful place.