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Last evening I went to the “buterfly”field close to my home. It was for the first time in weeks. When I was there the butterflies waren’t and now they were but the field is cut very short. Just a little corner in the field was still filled with plants and yes some blues
metallic insect or jagged insect 😉 my second choice for the theme #PickTwo in #MacroMondays
The rose chafer is not only metallic but also jagged. Beware of the legs! 😉 See Judy ? It's really a suit of armor :D
Cetonia aurata, called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer, is a beetle, 20 millimetres (3⁄4 in) long, that has a metallic structurally coloured green
Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Olympus 60mm F2.8 Macro
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Wood Duck Male (Aix sponsa)
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We've had the wettest February in 60 years, March will most likely be the coldest in 100...........so my window sill is filled with things to bloom, some day!!
From my book 'green thoughts'
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Sunny morning in the forest
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Laut Wikipedia zählt sie zusammen mit der Elisabethkirche in Marburg als älteste gotische Kirche in Deutschland und als bedeutendster und frühester gotischer Zentralbau des Landes. Sie gehört zum UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe und ist wohl eine der interessantesten und schönsten Kirche in meiner Sammlung.
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Misa Ato Photography Blackandwhite Nîmes Gard France Janvier 2019
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"In Love Again"
Remember the day our lips touched in the rain
Fire works through my veins into my heart
Remember the night’s dancing under the sky
I got lost in the moonlight. Found in your dark eyes
Ohh I wanna fall in love again but this time
But this time with no regrets
I wanna give it all again but this time
But this time with no secrets
I don’t want just anyone. Not anyone new
I wanna fall in love again with you
With you. With you
I wanna fall in love again with you
With you.
Can we forget all the lies that we’ve led
Take us so far away from the truth
Can we erase all the tears and regrets
Fear hiding in the pain
The shadows of yesterday
Ohh I wanna fall in love again but this time
But this time with no regrets
I wanna give it all again but this time
But this time with no secrets
I don’t want just anyone. Not anyone new
I wanna fall in love again with you
With you. With you
We can take a blank white page
And fill it with the dreams we made
And let these scars slowly fade away
I wanna fall in love again but this time
with no regrets
I wanna give it all again but this time
But this time with no secrets
I don’t want just anyone. Not anyone new
Oh no I don’t want just anyone
Not anyone new
I wanna fall in love again with you
With you. With you
I wanna be in love again with you
With you.
I wanna be in love again...
This capture in Arches was about 1.5 hours before sunrise. Quarter moon added some nice light into the scene.
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There are some great aerial display teams around the world like the Blue Angels, the Red Arrows and our own Australian Roulettes. Well, this is the newest team - The White Pelicans! Here, they are doing a formation takeoff for a keen group of spectators.
Happy Wing Wednesday!
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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The Milky Way arches down from the sky, then disappears below the distant horizon, seemingly casting light on the earth beneath in the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.