#SilentSunday near #LikaLodge : forest strawberries , May blossoms , young trees & wild flowers : overwhelm of tastes, touch & fragrances : almost unbearable happiness!
Busy day: cutting wood 🪵 , picking strawberries 🍓, walking in the meadows plucking wild flowers… enjoying #LikaLodge
I’ve chosen this morning to cycle to “town” based on weather forecast (raining y’day & will rain tomorrow) & dwindling food supplies - but - apparently it’s a holiday in Croatia & shops are closed! Still : enjoying early lunch & sun & the river :) #LikaLodge
Rainy day at #LikaLodge : I’ve mostly tended fire & cooked, emailed a bit - and I got the best surprise in the evening: the dog is back!!! 🥰🐕🌈 (I’ve made elderflower syrup & half-baked pizza …)
Good morning from #LikaLodge : stone ecosystems edition! Delightful little “gardens” that remind me of Japanese styled arrangements & #bonsai … but IRL! Succulents, mosses, water pools … all before 6AM! Life is great!
Plants & animals this dawn near #LikaLodge : (possibly?) magic mushrooms that grow on sh!t , prickly beauty , & the face of the mountains! Bountiful nature after the rains! Plus all the birds I cannot see - but I hear them: so loud & clear!
#InterRail travel day: Zagreb-Berlin . Morning started good: after staying with family (& cat!) & receiving their help & love, I got to the train station mostly dry & on time; thd 2nd #train is leaving on time so there’s hope I’ll catch the next one (in infamous Villach)! #Seat42
Update! Due to a “Faak”-ery in the SEE/Balkans (long delay - missed my connection) & after a lot of planning & juggling with FlixBus / train options, I decided to stay overnight in Villach, then take an early train tomorrow. Now, with the cancellations because of storm damages in Germany, I do hope I will get to Berlin at all! or at least to Munich,… & then : I’ll make a new plan. #InterRain #InterRail #ClimateChaos #climate #chaos
Random musings: the names for birds near #LikaLodge sound like poetry: Ševa :
* wood lark (Lullula arborea) Шумска чучурлига
* skylark(Alauda arvensis)Poljska ševa
* crested (Galerida cristata) Ćubasta
Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) = Kreja / Vlaamse gaai / Šojka
sivi ćuk (lat. Athene noctua) little owl
Češljugar … Carić… Kosovica… Senica.. Detlić / woodpecker …