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If you look closely, you can see the dragonfly's front legs pointing upwards, trying to push away the attacking damselfly. The damselfly seemed to bite the dragonfly on his wing. I have only ever seen damselflies attack egg-laying female dragonflies before, I have no idea why it would attack the much larger male insect.
04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
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Wikipedia: The red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus) is an Asian lapwing or large plover, a wader in the family Charadriidae. Like other lapwings they are ground birds that are incapable of perching. Their characteristic loud alarm calls are indicators of human or animal movements and the sounds have been variously rendered as did he do it or pity to do it leading to the colloquial name of did-he-do-it bird. Usually seen in pairs or small groups and usually not far from water they sometimes form large aggregations in the non-breeding season (winter). They nest in a ground scrape laying three to four camouflaged eggs. Adults near the nest fly around, diving at potential predators while calling noisily. The cryptically patterned chicks hatch and immediately follow their parents to feed, hiding by lying low on the ground or in the grass when threatened.
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Conservation status: Least Concern
(Note: I was trying to get chick and parent in the same frame, but the parent tries to lead you away from the chicks as a strategy of defense. If you happen to get too close both parents will continuously dive bomb you.)
If you have never seen these owls, I can tell you watching them in the sky is AMAZING! They will keep your eyes glued to the sky with their acrobatic stunts for hours!
"If you don't wanna see me
Did a full one eighty, crazy
Thinking 'bout the way I was
Did the heartbreak change me? Maybe
But look at where I ended up
I'm all good already
So moved on it's scary
I'm not where you left me at all
So if you don't wanna see me dancing with somebody
If you wanna believe that anything could stop me
Don't show up, don't come out
Don't start caring about me now
Walk away, you know how
Don't start caring about me now
Aren't you the guy who tried to
Hurt me with the word "goodbye"?
Though it took some time to survive you
I'm better on the other side
I'm all good already
So moved on it's scary
I'm not where you left me at all
So if you don't wanna see me dancing with somebody
If you wanna believe that anything could stop me
Don't show up, don't come out
Don't start caring about me now
Walk away, you know how
Don't start caring about me now
Don't come out
Don't show up
Don't start now
Don't come out
I'm not where you left me at all
So if you don't wanna see me dancing with somebody
If you wanna believe that anything could stop me
Don't show up (Don't show up), don't come out (Don't come out)
Don't start caring about me now ('bout me now)
Walk away (Walk away), you know how (You know how)
Don't start caring about me now"
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✈: The Quieting
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
* After several months, I'm back and taking life one day at a time.
Summer is over here in the Nordics, and here I lie - pale and frozen among withering flowers, just like in RL.
I have chosen this song, because it describes exactly how I feel ♥ :
♪ ♫ ♩ ♬: Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol
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Edgar Allen Poe
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peony, 'Krinkled White', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
If you can't go somewhere for it really makes you want to go.
I miss going on the fells and to the lakes but I won't.
It will keep until it is safe to do so, hopefully it won't be long. Take care everyone
If all goes well Half Dome looks like it's glowing at sunset in Yosemite National Park. This was taken from the Sentinel Bridge in the Yosemite Valley Village.
If you ever want to have a flower that blooms from late summer through autumn and that attracts bees, choose helenium. It seemed that every time I walked past a planting of these flowers, there were always several bees gathering pollen from them.
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of Richard Serra ...
it gets an extraordenary shape ...
10000 diagonally inserted open tubes above, oriented to the south. direct the light onto the artwork ...
which has a height of 4 meter, 18 meter length und 7 meter width and the weight is 216 000 kg, the weight of 2 locomotives !
ƒ/6.3 14.0 mm 1/100 100
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at least be there to wipe away my tears !
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Its not RANDOM .. =P ..
Hope u like it ~
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get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer :-)
William Albert Allard
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pipevine swallowtail butterfly on echinacea, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
If I die in your arms
It's right where I'm supposed to be
You know I'm not afraid
As long as you're next to me (so tell me)
So tell me, will you hold me
When the curtains close
If I died in your arms
It's right where I'm supposed to be (If I died)
If I were a million years younger (you know what I mean 😝) I would have kited. Definitely! I meet kiters often and love watching them, it looks so fun! I have to settle for catching them with my camera 😊
If you visit Pawnee National Grassland at any point throughout the summer, there's a fine chance you'll see one of these cryptically-colored goatsuckers sleeping atop a post or a tree branch. They're rather tame, probably because they rely on their apparent camouflage to protect them... unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work well when they're out in the open.
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If you walk down the Royal Mile and you'll see open doorways near the castle end of the street. In Edinburgh terms, these are known as "closes"; basically, very old, narrow, steep streets once replete with open sewers. Now home to bars, restaurants, and museums, they offer a true taste of historic Edinburgh. Advocate's Close is a particularly interesting one; positioned up high, it affords views of the Scott Monument and a good portion of Edinburgh. Halfway down, The Devil's Advocate is a moodily lit bar that serves up excellent cocktails in a historic setting.
Like most of the closes, Advocate's Close, which is thought to date back to the 1500s, is spooky and fascinating, and it's like stepping back in time. Most of these skinny streets have been widened or built over; the closes that remain are a precious fragment of local history. There are many more closes...as World's End Close, Fleshmarket Close etc
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