Things I saw in the park when I went out for a walk after yet another rain - or alternatively, the rain caught me there ( Read more... )

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... on the linden flowers. :)

Photo from 29 May. It wasn't just bees that were eager for the pollen and nectar of this silver linden tree that was one of first in town to come into bloom. I had the insect identified as Rhagonycha fulva in a Bulgarian entomological group on Facebook. Wikipedia says " common red soldier beetle," but I swear ours are ( Read more... )

I tried different angles, but never managed all six flowers at once, and I didn't want to remove the branch from that tiled wall because I didn't want it to topple over. And to be honest, a rose branch was all we needed on the kitchen table. LOL

(if you don't know how it got there in the first place, look at my previous entry.)


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This branch of my very special favourite the Unexpected Rose* ended up in my kitchen, and there are actually six flowers on it, but some of them are hiding behind the others in the photo that I took yesterday evening:


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As I was photographic random plants on my way back home along my usual walking route last evening, my eyes fell on this chamomile plant growing thereon its own:


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I know who planted this one, for a change ( Read more... )

There was just one flower on the small young magnolia tree along my walking route this year (its record so far was three flowers, I think). But that one flower was huge, as usual.

9 April

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I can't believe I captured a honeybee (or any bee) so clearly in focus with my camera. :)

It's a Norway maple (Acer platanoides).


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Photos form 1 April

Common chickweed (Stellaria media). I've been fascinated with these tiny white flowers since my earliest childhood. Now that it's in bloom, maybe that's a sign that it's really spring, after all the "usual suspects" have been in bloom since late January if not last year.

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