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Katrin How on earth did they do it?
27. März 2024
Ah, that's good to know! I might have a look around just out of curiosity. I've since learned that w...
Heather Athebyne How on earth did they do it?
25. März 2024
...though not entirely easy. I've been able to get my hands on a few strands over the years for Geor...
Katrin Hieroglyphs.
23. Februar 2024
Yes, that would sort of fit that aspect - but you can also go from bits of woods to sticks if you ar...
Bruce Hieroglyphs.
23. Februar 2024
I think the closest English equivalent would be 'Down the rabbit hole'. It has one entrance (No, not...
Harma Spring is Coming.
20. Februar 2024
I'm definitely jealous! Mine disapeared except for one pathetic little flower. But the first daffodi...

Visitors, hungry ones.

A few years ago, we stopped mowing our lawn - which, back then, was consisting to about equal parts of grass, wild thyme, and moss. It still has these three components, but now a lot of flowers are blooming in the ex-lawn. Most prominent are scabiosa flowers, with their distinctive pink pollen - and we know our neighbour's bees come to visit them a lot, as he tells us they come home with pink pants.

The flowers are not only making the bees happy, though. There's also some flower heads that are lacking their half-ripe seeds, and some of the stems of these flowers are broken. And here's one of the reasons:

There's a pair of these, and they stop by quite often. They are very shy, though, making it hard to get a decent picture of them even with a tele lens... 

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Things I Do, Sometimes.
Manuscripts Online: St. Elisabeth's Psalter.
 

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