Have a nice #caturday. “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”( Mark Twain ). Photo © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
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Amanita muscaria.A very nice mushroom …. Although classified as poisonous, reports of human deaths resulting from its ingestion are extremely rare. Better not eat it ..!This is photographed in Sardinia (Italy) under a forest of eucalyptus.Photo © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
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Nasturzi.”Tropaeolum majus” (garden nasturtium) is a flowering plant in the family Tropaeolaceae, originating in the Andes from Bolivia north to Colombia. It is widely cultivated, both as an ornamental plant and as a medicinal plant. All its parts are edible. The flower has most often been consumed, making for an especially ornamental salad ingredient..This is my terrace … I do not eat them, I like to watch them!Photo © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
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There are flowers that have the color of the night … as this pansy but also cosmos, dahlias, hellebores, lilys, tulips… Black flowers are mysterious and elegant. In reality there are no truly black flowers – most are very dark shades of purple or red. They symbolise power, mystery, elegance, farewell and goodbye. . Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved
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Arbutus Unedo , (Corbezzolo)Arbutus unedo (strawberry tree) is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe north to western France and Ireland . The plant is very common in Sardinia, where I live.The fruit is a red berry, 1–2 cm diameter, with a rough surface. It matures in about 12 months, in autumn, at the same time as the next flowering. It is edible; the fruit is sweet when reddish, and tastes similar to a fig.Sorce : Wikipedia
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Sardinia’s Nuraghic monuments, dolmen, menhir, domus de janas, giants’ tombs, all striking testimonials to an ancient megalithic culture, are believed to be surrounded by strong magnetic energy which influences and improves the wellbeing of body and soul. Even Aristotle reported that in Sardinia lying close to a Tomb of the Giants was a way to get rid of nightmares and obsessions. The necropolis of Sant’Andrea Priu is an archaeological site located on the south side of the fertile plain of Saint Lucia, in the municipality of Bonorva, Sardinia. The complex, one of the most important of the island, is composed of twenty domus de janas; one of them with its eighteen rooms appears to be one of the largest hypogean tombs of the Mediterranean basin. Chronologically, the complex is dated 3500–2900 BC. In the necropolis lies this Dolmen very particular form of bull ..http://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/article/stones-and-water–ancient-sources-wellnessPhoto © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
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The butterfly effect. “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?”The butterfly effect is the concept that small causes can have large effects……Fascinating theory … but beautiful butterfly!(Source Wikipedia)Photo © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
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This is my blue. Blue was a favourite colour of the impressionist painters, who used it not just to depict nature but to create moods, feelings and atmospheres.In Vincent van Gogh’s Irises, the blue irises are placed against their complementary colour, yellow-orange.Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, “‘Cobalt [blue] is a divine colour and there is nothing so beautiful for putting atmosphere around things .(Source Wikipedia)Iris photographed in Florence during the exhibition of Iris. . ..Photo © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
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Jacaranda is a genus of 49 species of flowering #plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Central America, South America, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and the Bahamas.Several species are widely grown as ornamental plants throughout the subtropical regions of the world, valued for their intense #flower displays.In my city, Cagliari (#Italy), there are many examples of this remarkable plant . This is a plant that I photographed in full bloom in late May. Photo © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
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Sardinia’s Nuraghic monuments, dolmen, menhir, domus de janas, giants’ tombs, all striking testimonials to an ancient megalithic culture, are believed to be surrounded by strong magnetic energy which influences and improves the wellbeing of body and soul. Even Aristotle reported that in Sardinia lying close to a Tomb of the Giants was a way to get rid of nightmares and obsessions. The necropolis of Sant’Andrea Priu is an #archaeological site located on the south side of the fertile plain of Saint Lucia, in the municipality of Bonorva, #Sardinia. The complex, one of the most important of the island, is composed of twenty domus de janas; one of them with its eighteen rooms appears to be one of the largest hypogean tombs of the Mediterranean basin. Chronologically, the complex is dated 3500–2900 BC. In the necropolis lies this Dolmen very particular form of bull ..http://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/article/stones-and-water–ancient-sources-wellnessPhoto © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
Source: Archaeological Sardinia (Italy)
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