A little bit of Italy

London Plane







With alligators on the soles of your feet.













And then it moved!





I want one.









A superb irridescence.





Chicory





Clouded Yellow



Copper



A stunning fungus.





A ragged knapweed





Oleander



Sunflowers proud in the sunshine.







Scarce Swallowtail
Iphiclides podalirius
perhaps for us
but not for the rest of Europe.
An abundant Swallowtail
in fact.

Found in open woodlands, fields and gardens.
form Saxony to China.
A Palearctic Swallowtail

Pear-tree Swallowtail
Southern Swallowtail
but my favourite
a
Sail Swallowtail

Beginning to suffer from a lack of Blackthorn Bushes.











It didn’t quite open to show the two eyes.

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