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Influenced and shaped by changing climates and human activity, Abergwesyn Commons in Powys is anything but a static landscape. Today you can walk in this vast and wild place, but for thousands of years people lived all over the uplands and Abergwesyn has been home to farms, churches and ritual sites throughout the ages.
Zermatt, it's a pleasant town, but seriously they need to sort out all the traffic!!! This was base camp to getting up closer to the Matterhorn. I warned you all that I would be posting more gratuitous Matterhorn images!!! This is from a couple of weeks ago in Switzerland.
The whole traffic thing is a joke of course. Zermatt is actually combustion engine free, only electric and "grass-powered" vehicles up here. Which means you can't actually drive here, you need to take the spectacular cogwheel train to get to the village. Steep sections of the railway have cogs to stop the train from slipping backward or going down too quickly.
The horseman's outfit matches the Valais flag, which is the canton that Zermatt is in.
This is a Common Blue butterfly trying to nectar from a Common Vetch flower, both "Commons", hence the title. But neither species is especially common. The scientific name of Common Vetch is Vicia sativa. Vicio is the Latin verb to bind, because it has tiny tendrils at the end of its leaves which bind to other plants to help it climb, visible here. Sativa means cultivated, as it was originally introduced to Britain from western Asia as a fodder crop, but has now naturalised itself throughout the British Isles.
The Common Blue butterfly is still the most widespread of the "blues" in Britain, but its population has declined in recent decades. This was photographed near Dunford Bridge in the Pennines of South Yorkshire.
Pulsa L para ver con fondo negro // Press L for viewing in black
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Camara /Camera: Nikon AW110
Objetivo/Lense: --
Place / Lugar: Manchester, United Kingdom
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I am a bit short of current fly pictures these days ...must try to correct that this weekend.
Happy FlyDay Friday!
It turns out that 2016 had one last treasure to offer up, my son James and I spotted a whale just off the coast yesterday. It was a little far away, but a fluke's a fluke! I think it was a humpback, but I'm no expert.
This is a closer image I got earlier in 2016 - Link.