10 of the best: nature photographs.

Unbelievable and very interesting.

True, true.

On the narrow walkway and all the flowers - I'm not totally against plants being in that place. It was a reaction to that particular mass of plants - and I can see others liking them.

I believe that that place, Spello, Umbria, has more to offer than flowers..

The same street in Spelli - green garagedoor at end of street and differnet amount of floweres.
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And here at night
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The lake that turns creatures to stone



http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/10/this-alkaline-african-lake-turns-animals-into-stone/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=20131003&utm_content=collageofartsandsciencesalkaline

Just saw that jespah had posted this on Facebook too.

I didn't notice it was Spello - have a book on Spello somewhere in my mass of italy books, read it decades ago, but haven't been there.

When I send an e-mail I always add a picture.
You have all such special pictures that tonight I copied several of them into e-mails which I will use during the week when I mail someone.

What a lovely idea, saab - might copy your idea next time I reply to one!

Today´s weather

What is the word for these paths - vertiginous?

Backlit hoarfrost on the leaves of a plant in Zabar, Hungary, on Friday morning. Photograph: Peter Komka/EPA, via The Guardian

A pair of damselflies photographed in close-up in Italy's Po Valley both informs and entertains revealing the insects in fascinating detail. Don't they look like two little aliens holding hands?
Photograph: Alberto Ghizzi Panizza/Solent News/via The Guardian

Don't try.

Love that sunset/sunrise reflection picture!

Chapel on Mount Pilatus in Central Switzerland

If I were on the path in either of those photos, I would probably be literally scared to death. I'm somewhat acrophobic anyway in more ordinary places.
On the other hand, once when we were in Guatemala going up a vertiginous grade in a rickety bus, there were Mayans carrying very heavy stuff up all that way on foot. I suppose their lungs and muscles are used to it, and they have the immense need to do that lift and carry to survive, survival a good motive. Which remind me of the Sebastiano Salgado photo of the goldminers (no link).

That's a nice photo. Interesting building problem - they probably couldn't do a foundation to make the building level. Or are my eyes looking at it wrong?