Inverewe Garden Part II

How do you guys treat yourselves after a long day at work or school? I have just realised that there are two main things that can get me off the couch *and I mean lying there, playing dead*

the smell of lavender *got a new essential oil, now it's filling my room from an oil lamp* and gardening.

The new season has started, and I do have a bunch of new pics from my garden, but I've also got a few unfinished stories from the last year's travel, so I'd better start with those before the year runs out again :]

*на русском чуть дальше*

Inverewe Garden Part I

As the GoT fever has finally reached me, I can proudly boast of having visited the great gardens of Wester Ross :)

Though not as dramatic as all the plots of the Seven Kingdoms, Inverewe Garden holds the stories of bold and daring botanists and seed hunters who went to look for exotic plants and their seeds all over the world, selecting the toughest which would be fit to survive in northern Scotland. 

Geisterklamm

A few days ago (May 24th) there was European Day of Parks that was first launched in 1999. The idea is to celebrate protected areas across Europe and raise awareness of their beauty and environmental value.

I also happened to have a day off, so we went to Mittenwald, a small town right a the Tirol-Bavarian border, for a hike in Geisterklamm (Spirit Gorge). Needless to say, this 3 km long trail with a 800 m long walkway that hangs 50 meters above the river is simply breath-taking, that's why it's mostly about the pictures.

when you work as a forest elf...

...you learn some of its hidden secrets
             ...работая эльфом в лесу, узнаёшь некоторые из его секретов

Mother of dragons

Full time spring. I woke up, and my little dragons were right there, waiting for me.

Another post in pictures.

Весна в разгаре!

Ещё один пост в картинках.

First big project, throwback in 2010

Before I tell you what my first big project was, I probably should say a few words about how I got into the Applied Ecology Youth Club, aka RÖNK.

Garden Dwellers, Winter Time

Although we are having a thaw right now, I managed to make some close-ups of my neighbours last week, as promised. Birds of all kinds came to visit me while I was preparing for the exams (hence had little time to post anything, but one can always find a moment to drag a camera out, if something more interesting than studies is happening around ;)

So here they are, my flying neighbours!