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Manuela.
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From my hikes...
Enjoying the changing colors of one of the hills near my house in late winter.
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Last Sunday hiking into the woods, I met this oak tree trunk hosting mushrooms and mosses: amazing interconnected living organisms.
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Who I met yesterday.
A yellow coltsfoot.
The Tussilago farfara, belonging to the Asteraceae, was thought to have proprieties against cough (= tussis, Latin). But it also contains alkaloids toxic to the liver.
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From this morning's path...
The contrast of colors.
What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life
Vincent Van Gogh
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From my hikes...
Dolomiti - 2021
When you enter a forest you are entering a living complex community.
Be respectful and kind to all kinds of organisms.
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From my hikes...
Memories of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area - Lake Powell - 2016
The sky, the rock, the lake.
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From my hikes…
Memories of "The Needles" - Canyonlands National Park - 2012
Wonderful colorful sandstone opens up as far as the horizon.
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From my hikes...
Dolomiti - 2021
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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From my hikes...
Walking at sunset while looking at the moon.
We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.
Isaac Asimov
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From my hikes…
Ready to bloom!
Yesterday into the woods, I definitely found signs of early spring.
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The sky and the clouds from my house yesterday evening.
Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind.
Alexander von Humboldt
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From my hikes...
Memories of Yellowstone National Park - 2011
It is exactly in hot springs like this one that life on Earth arose.
Thermus aquaticus, used in the PCR reaction, was first isolated here.
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From my hikes...
Towards the "Gola Bletterbach" - Dolomiti - 2021
An easy and absolutely fabulous hike through wonderful conifer forests and striking alpine landscapes.
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From my hikes…
Catinaccio - Dolomiti - 2021
Pictures as feelings...
What’s the use of doing all this work if we don't get some fun out of this?
Rosalind Franklin
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From my hikes...
Memories of Yellowstone National Park - 2011
Is it clear enough that you are above the caldera of a supervolcano?
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From my hikes…
The blue sky over half hill.
Roughly an exponential growth and the plateau…
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From my hikes...
In the first picture, sori of a fern found yesterday in a forest in Umbria, in the second picture sori of a fern found last summer in the Dolomiti mountains.
The wonder of biodiversity
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