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Slovenia 6.6.18
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Got up early for the last opportunity to catch the light and went out to the right of the church then on to the graveyard |
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 Slatty barn |
 Mist in the valley and a bit nearer below  |
 Curiosity |
 Meadow flowers |
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 Knapweed |
 Meadowsweet |
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 Salvia vulgaris |
 Yarrow |
We looked around the graveyard. I thought it interesting that the gravestones were polished on the front, but plain stone on the reverse. |
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 Sempervivum |
 Roof thatched with grass |
We visited the Wetlands Centre to see birds and dragonflies |
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 Loo stop |
 Terrapin |
 Frog |
 Crocothemis erythraea - Scarlet dragonfly |
 Orthetrum cancellatum - Black tailed skimmer  |
 Swollen-thighed Beetle - Oedemera nobilis |
 Crown vetch |
 Italian wall lizard |
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 Fuzzy, but a pigmy cormorant |
 View from the hide |
 A hide |
 Inside the hide |
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 Boškarin, or Istrian cattle |
 Camargue horses |
We had a marvellous lunch with sourdough bread and bobici soup followed by a tiramisu with lemon instead of coffee. The house owned by Paul's friends had the most magnificent view over the valley with a terrace for outdoor living
Table for lunch |
 Family dog |
 Lizard orchid |
 Ornithogalum pyrenaicum |
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 Laburnum seeds |
 Family dog |
We bought some achillea oil which aids scar healing. |
 Cotinus coggygria, syn. Rhus cotinus - smoke bush |
| Next stop was at a river with paving alongside and in the river. It was very hot... |
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 Nettle-tree Butterfly |
 Paved river bed |
 Patterns in the water |
 Aristolochia |
 Lizard orchid |
 Genista tinctoria |
 Echium |
 Bug orchid |
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 Large chequered skipper, Heteropterus Morpheus |
 Praying mantis 2-3cm. tall |
 Scorzonera aristata |
 Marbled white |
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 Perennial pea |
 vegetable garden |
 The nearest I got to a picture of bee-eaters |
 by AD Saunders from the web I saw bee-eaters in the telescope |
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We had the evening meal at this wooden cabin on the left made by a woodcarver, decorated with his impressive bears. |
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 Boating bear |
 Roof supporter |
 Great fun... |
 A comma in our room |
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We packed up our gear ready to move accommodation tomorrow |
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