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Dalle variopinte rocce della Cima da Flix a 3301 mt. d'altezza, uno scorcio del sottostante ghiacciaio del Calderas.
Ora, mentre rivediamo i ricordi dell'estate scorsa, speriamo solo di poter tornare a colorare la nostra vita.
Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui
The Painted Lady is a long-distance migrant, which causes the most spectacular butterfly migrations observed in Britain and Ireland.
Each year, it spreads northwards from the desert fringes of North Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia, recolonising mainland Europe and reaching Britain and Ireland. In some years it is an abundant butterfly, frequenting gardens and other flowery places in late summer.
Painted lady butterflies have a pale buffy-orange background colour to the upper wings. The forewings have black tips marked with white spots; the hindwings have rows of black spots. The undersides are pale with blue eyespots.
Painted ladies do not hibernate in Britain; instead they migrate to and from northern Africa. They can arrive in early spring, but late May and June are more usual. They are fairly common across Britain, numerous in some years.
Females lay their small, green eggs on a range of species, such as nettles and mallows, but thistles are the general favourite. When the caterpillars hatch they begin to eat the underside of the leaf. As they grow, each constructs a tent of folded leaves fastened with silk.
Caterpillars pupate and remain suspended in a large tent of leaves until the adults emerge in August and September. The whole British population dies or emigrates to Africa in the autumn.
Caterpillars are black, speckled with tiny white spots and have a yellow stripe down each side. They are covered in spines.
The colorist movement, which took place in the '60s, are responsible for the bright colors of the Seven Painted Ladies. During the second World War, many homes were painted in cheap gray paint and the city looked drab. So a local artist, Butch Kradum, began painting homes in bright blues and greens and it caught on.
The Painted Hills in South Australia taken from the air. These remote amazing hills are surrounded by flat dry desert and lie in Anna Creek - the world's largest cattle station. The station is some 24,000 square kilometres (or bigger than Wales if you prefer a tangible scale).
Painted Gourds made into Folk Art bird houses by local craftsmen in North Carolina, colorful and very cheerful.
Finally - a Painted skimmer! They're usually our first skimmers to fly early in Spring. So good to see him at the wetlands. North Georgia
p.s. also the first Beast of the year, and a foty Yellow-sided skimmer - rare
A male Painted Bunting taking a bath in a friends water fountain. His head looks more purple than blue, I think, because of the blue color of the fountain.