A couple of days ago, three old friends were walking along the windy coastline as the sun was slowly going down. I was one of them ...
... and here you'll see what I photographed along the way.
It started late in the afternoon ...
... with no particular reason. We met unexpectedly in the grocery store, we all had free time to spend carelessly, so my friends let their bicycles locked on the parking lot, sat in my car, and drove to the village called Liznjan, about 4 kilometers from our hometown. We passed the houses and the port, drove along the dusty unpaved road and ended up on the wild, windy peninsula with the lighthouse on its end. On this photograph, a friend called Emil is watching something in the wavy sea, probably the waves themselves. He has no HIVE account, he rarely uses any Internet related stuff and has no virtual life at all, so I can't tag him ... the dude on the following photograph :D on the other hand ...
... has a solid, more than a year-long HIVE presence, it's pretty active, and I will gladly tag him. His name is Denis, but becomes a double - Denis when enters this space. @denisdenis is his name here.
When we arrived, we were chatting and joking along the way ... for about a hundred meters or so, but then ...
... each one's attention got caught by some different aspect of the interesting nature around us, so we continued our rambling in a more meditative way, each one taking its own path. I entered the macro universe, of course. There was an old, empty exoskeleton of some pill bug, laying in the dust.
From a certain angle, it looked like some helmet that could fit very well into the Star Wars universe.
Some small moth was resting nearby ... I took this shot ...
... and then, the moth flew away. But because of the wind, it couldn't fly far without a risk of ending up in the sea, so I was able to take another photograph with the same moth on the leaf of some resilient plant that grows among the coastal rocks.
Soon the moth took another short flight and landed on the top of some dried out plant. Here I took another photograph and let the insect be. This time I left and the moth remained.
Just one seagull was gliding low above the sea, and was almost invisible on this grayish background.
On the colorful, lichen - covered rocks ...
... I photographed some minuscule spider. I noticed it because the spider was moving. At first, I saw only a frenzied dot that was moving fast across the limestone and lichens. Only when the thing stopped, and I took a better look through the macro lens, I realized that it was a spider.
At one point, when I got out of the macro - mode, and looked at the sky, there was some gorgeous light up there. I took this shot ...
... and then shifted my focus back to the small things down on the ground ...
... the interesting succulent plants that grow in harsh conditions, on thin sandy soil surrounded by rocks, often under strong winds and salted by the waves.
I found a couple of cool little details among this sparse coastal vegetation ...
... and I encountered another moth. This one was well camouflaged on the brown, desiccated stuff. After this macro encounter ...
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... I saw Emil on the rocks about 50 meters further. He found some mysterious thing made of glass. It looks like some smoking equipment to me.
This little spider covered with dust was photographed in the middle of the dusty road that divides the narrow shore and the vast meadows on the other side.
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The wind was raising plenty of dust, and the atmosphere along the western horizon, where the sun was close to the line of distant trees, looked pretty hazy ... and very photogenic.
On the opposite side, much higher in the sky ...
... the moon was split in two halves. One half of that moon was perfectly visible, while the other was taken away ... or disintegrated by some Death Star ... or just invisible ... cloaked somehow, like a Klingon ship.
On this photograph, you can see a HIVE advert that @denisdenis has written in the dust.
With the sun completely behind the horizon ...
... while the dark was rapidly enveloping the costal landscape ...
... we were walking along the road bordered by shrubs and meadows.
Denis was picking blackberries.
Later that night, he will produce three glass jars of delicious homemade marmalade.
Right now, with the last few shots taken on our way back to the car ...
... it's time to end this Wednesday - walk. Have a great Wednesday, wherever on the planet you are.
As always here on HIVE, the photographs are my work - THE END.