FIRST DAYS IN OCTOBER 2014

October was mostly nice & sunny and I had plenty of fun throughout that month and more or less the entire year. In today's post, I'm about to show you a bunch of photographs taken in the first days of October 2014. Have a good viewing.

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In this opening photograph, you can take a look at the coastal scenery in the coastal area called Palera.

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Palera isn't far from where I live. Only five or six kilometers.

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On the 4th of October, late in the morning ...

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... when this and all the previous photographs were taken, I came across the remains of a pretty large makeshift canopy built probably by the tourists that visited that specific inlet regularly in September. A friend was also there with me, and my small dog Bepina too.

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The cultivated fields in Palera produce plenty of cabbages.

Here you can admire the elegant beauty of an ordinary cabbage leaf.

It was raining heavily the night before ...

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... so the fields were flooded in some places.

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All that water gave a new, unusual feel to the familiar scenery.

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Here you can see a net sack filled with red and yellow peppers laying on the grass of the meadow by the side of the road. Maybe it fell from the trailer of the tractor during the transport.

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In this set of four photographs, taken quickly one after another, you can see the same scenery from a different angle, lit differently. You can also take a good look at my friend's shadow in one of these shots.

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On the large meadow half a kilometer further, I photographed a bale of hay.

My friend was meditating while sitting in a very profesional spiritual pose on that thing in the middle of the coastal meadow and with the power of relaxed mindfulness she was able to blur the entire scenery for a fraction of a second. I wasn't aware of that change but my camera caught the amazing phenomenon so you can see it in this photograph.

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I like the hay bales. They look great in the landscape.

Part of Palera was once a military base. In this photograph, you can see the old rusted watch tower, a relic from those days.

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The wind was blowing, especially close to the sea, but it wasn't strong, just a little bit stronger than a gentle summer breeze. However, even that modest wind was enough to create some problems while lighting a cigarette. Here you can see a friend of mine trying.

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Many insects were still active in October. In this set of four photographs, I'm presenting you the European mantis (Mantis religiosa).

A couple of kilometers from Palera, there is a stretch of coastline called Marlera. This photograph was taken there on the 8th of October.

Here you can see Bepina, my little dog introduced earlier in the post, swimming in one of the inlets of Marlera.

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Two or three hundred meters from the sea there is a pretty large stone quarry. If you enlarge this photograph by clicking on it, you'll see the small human figure in the middle of that hole in the ground.

This spider, the Argiope bruennichi, was photographed among the thorny leaves of the dry Scolymus hispanicus plant near the edge of the quarry.

Some lovely flowers can be found in that desolate stony place.

In this photograph, you can see some young plants that recently appeared on the thick, fertile soil on the edge of the cultivated fields closer to the sea. Just like in Palera, you can see plenty of cabbages and other vegetables in Marlera.

This snail was found & photographed on the front facade of one of the houses in my neighborhood. Cornu aspersum is the name of the species.

Here you can see a much smaller snail crawling across the same facade.

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In this case, I can't tell you the name of the species. The snails were photographed on the 6th of October 2014.

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On the 1st of October, I photographed some friends & family in my yard.

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The day was cloudy but warm.

This small yellow flower Oxalis corniculata plant was photographed on the stairs in front of one of the old houses in the center of Medulin-my hometown.

Also on the 1st of October.

This grainy indoor shot was taken in my room, on the 3rd of October.

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In this set of four photographs taken on the 5th of October in front of my house, you can see a Cornu aspersum snail crawling across my friend's hand.

On the 7th of October, in the place called Vizula, near the harbor here in my hometown, I photographed the Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) on the lawn under the big old pine tree. Not far from there ...

... on the calm surface of the shallow water of the bay ...

... I photographed some lovely bubbles.

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The bubbles look great from a certain angle when lit in a certain way.

Later that night, I photographed the full moon high in the sky above my
sleepy neighborhood.

Here you can see a cat on the Elderberry tree in my yard. The photograph was taken on the 2nd of October, early in the morning.

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A couple of hours later, I was transporting the old back seat of an old car on my back.

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Around noon, through the lens of my camera, I caught this casual chat at the gate of my yard. A neighbor was passing by after throwing her garbage in the appropriate containers on the crossroad and decided to share a few stories before returning home.

In the early morning of the 9th of October, on my way back from one of the two supermarkets on the outskirts of my hometown, I stopped to photograph the artificial rain that was watering the ornamental plants by the side of the road.

The scene looked surprisingly good in the beautiful morning light.

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Later that morning I had plenty of plumbing work in and out of my house. Some old pipe got broken and the water was leaking.

In the afternoon, I photographed this little egret (Egretta garzetta) on the pretty large pond a couple of hundred meters from my house.

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Here you can see three muddled, grainy photographs I took after dark while rambling around the quiet streets and beaches of Medulin. Less than a month earlier those places were teeming with summer nightlife. The shops and bars were open, and the crowd of tourists was moving like a tide.

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I found plenty of edible mushrooms on the 10th of October. In this tryptich, you can see me posing with that bounty in one of the rooms in my house.

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The next day I was in Palera again.

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Some out-of-season tourists were riding along the long narrow inlet that looks like a river in these photographs.

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Here you can see an old chair someone left near the shore.

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AND THAT'S IT. THE POST ENDS HERE. HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE JOURNEY DOWN THE MEMORY LANE. AS ALWAYS HERE ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK.