Cicada orni

803_6811 [Cicada orni]

 

 g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g g …. All day long! All summer!

 

Cicada: The well-known insect with the familiar sound.

 

One evening one of them landed on the awning over our balcony to spend the night. I was very close but I didn’t pay attention to it. The following evening, it came back to almost the same spot. Accidentally? On purpose? Was it the same insect? Who knows? I prepared my camera and pressed the shutter release just in case it had come on purpose to be photographed!

 

Photographed in Holargos on August 08 2020

 

 

Ag. Eirini

801_8427 [Ag. Eirini]

This little church, dedicated to St. Eirini, can be found at the very foot of Mt. Hymittos next to the residential area of Argyroupolis in Athens. It takes nearby residents only five minutes’ walk to get there and, besides lighting their own candle in the church, they can picnic in a beautiful spot arranged to that purpose under the trees.

Photographed on November 09, 2014

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Solanum eleagnifolium

801_0529 [Solanum eleagnifolium]

The fruit of Solanum eleagnifolium

Photographed in Athens on September 25, 2013

Alectoris chukar

803_4559 [Alectoris chukar]

Photographed on Mt. Hymittos on April 11, 2019

For other pictures of a chukar please click HERE.

Notobasis syriaca

803_6205 [Notobasis syriaca]

Native mainly to the Mediterranean countries and more, like Iran and Azerbaijan.
It grows to 30–100 cm tall, while the flower itself is about 2 cm in diameter.
If you happen to come across it, be careful of its needle-pointed leaves!

Photographed at Schinias on May 09, 2020

Anacamptis palustris

803_6159 [Anacamptis palustris]

Photographed at Schinias on May 09, 2020

Cephalanthera rubra

803_6399 [Cephalanthera rubra]

Photographed on Mt. Parnitha on June 19, 2020

Capparis spinosa

803_6316 [Capparis spinosa]

Photographed at OAKA on June 13, 2020