• Members 2331 posts
    June 13, 2026, 12:10 p.m.

    I like that half smile...

  • Members 499 posts
    June 13, 2026, 12:21 p.m.

    Good to see you getting out and about in the Apennines. I wondered about the title when I saw the pictures. It was only on closer inspection of this one that I understood.

    Fortunately, deadly fauna is at least one thing we typically don't have to worry about in the British countryside (granted there are a handful of venomous things here that'll give you a nasty bite though and I'm genuinely glad I didn't step on the well camouflaged Adder basking on the path that I encountered in The Lake District a few years ago).

  • Members 1551 posts
    June 13, 2026, 12:40 p.m.

    Aliums! Nice against the dark background.

  • Members 1551 posts
    June 13, 2026, 12:42 p.m.

    I like it but maybe it needs a bump in contrast?

  • Members 1551 posts
    June 13, 2026, 12:43 p.m.

    I love 2 and 4 but this last is outstanding.

  • Members 2637 posts
    June 13, 2026, 1:14 p.m.

    We see this quite often here in our part of the world.

    Glad you had a good time and a rest. sometimes a holiday without photography is a good thing.

  • Members 2637 posts
    June 13, 2026, 1:19 p.m.

    Architects and designers love doing this weird "green" stuff. I did read somewhere about an Engineer who used straw blocks to build his house. I wonder how it worked out.

  • Members 2637 posts
    June 13, 2026, 1:20 p.m.

    I rather like the composition you have seen in something so ordinary.