*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2026.06.13 ***

I like that half smile...

Cloud iridescence. Nice.

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).

Aliums! Nice against the dark background.

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

I love 2 and 4 but this last is outstanding.

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.

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.

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

For some reason I like the sense of emptyness in the Grain Pole hill shot... curious name.
The fox looks in good nick. Vixens often look a bit tatty at this time of year in my experience - the toll of motherhood.
The light in the last two is fabulous.

Very effective shot.

I think it worked out well. I came across this a few years ago;
www.houseplanninghelp.com/designing-and-self-building-an-affordable-straw-bale-house/

I also did a garden consultation years ago for a couple in the Forest of Dean who had built a straw bale extension to their stone cottage. They were a bit weird, but the house was cosy.

Very interesting. A "thatched roof" on a vertical surface.

Happy Birthday! Very nice bokeh. What lens did you use?

Thanks.

This is a stacked image taken with a Nikon Z105 Macro.

Thanks for the link. Looks like the straw is used to insulate, with a timber arch to hold the roof up which makes sense. I imagined walls made out of bales.

Very nice. When I was a kid, my dad grew alliums commercially.

STEVE... What an excellent series (as is always the case!) -- I really like No.1 with the wispy grasses and clouds. Dreamy.