Common flowers in close-ups

Wild chervil (Anthriscus sylvestris) is blossoming everywhere. I rather like it: big lace-like bushes are splendid around the yard.

And they have a faint scent, sweet but not too heavy...

Two little pines and one spruce trying to gain space and light

Spreading bellflower (Campanula patula) and a fly

 A closer look to the depths of the flower

Dandelion (Taraxacum) spreading the seed - those little parachutes we all know ever since we were kids and blew them to flight

It reminds me of a pincushion, the pompon where they are attached

 And the flocks are so light  and delicate

Wood crane's-bill (Geranium silvaticum) is also called as 'the midsummer flower' - now it is a bit early

Their color vary from very light, almost white to really dark violet - this is somewhere in the middle

 It is surprising that this ordinary flower at close-up reveals beauty that can compare to some jungle-flowers and their exotic colors!

The flower of arctic bramble (Rubus arcticus) with - again - a fly!

The little starwort (Stellaria) - here with the obligatory visiting fly - is another little beauty

 Like an abstract sculpture...

This spring and early summer have been full of various butterflies...

 Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaris) in the bud

An eager flover-fly in  wood crane's-bill

The little star of the carpel is very faintly ruby colored

On a walk...

Some days ago I was on my usual evening walk and took these pictures with my HTC desire HD, and even if it takes pretty good pictures these are not as good and colorful as they would be with 'my real camera'. These are kind of overexposed and colorless... It takes good pics inside and on cloudy weather...

Chickweed wintergreen - Trientalis europaea has opened it's little white stars...

 The red champion - Melandrium dioecum has been coloring the fields and ditch banks for long already.

Asta storm last July has still some marks like these by the road, and of  course the clearings.

 My shoes and my shadow...

 Different ferns grow by the road.

 And the ditches are still full of water producing millions and millions of gnats to our joy!

there is something in the ditch...

This spring it was first dry and windy, which was good for the roads. Now it has been raining a bit more, which is good for the nature and growth. It is also good for the mosquitoes... Anyway there is a lot of water in the ditches, and in that water something is crawling... Yes, frogs of course, but something else, too...

 It is a cold, windy and sunny morning. And even so there are mosquitoes... and yes, there is one! These animals usually move in the night and they are rare so I'm content to see one... It is about seven or eight cm long with delicate fingers. it is kind of floating on the surface...

 and then it is gone! It disappears under a rotten leaf in the mud... but another comes out of hiding and floats near the bottom... They are newts! Not lizards but amphibians!

 On the surface the water striders skate with fluid ease...

and in the bottom mud these funny fellows move hiding under their  covering armour of little leaves and other stuff. 

 Dragonflies spend their 'youth' under water in this kind of camouflage but I think these are a bit small for dragonflies... some relative perhaps... In the picture underneath one is grabbing the grass and can be seen sideways.

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 Quite a spider! The other one dived and was gone! This one was a calm customer and didn't flinch when the lens came near. Some three cm from one leg to another! Can you find it in the pic below? Yes, it is there... in the middle!

And then back to the field and wind - no mosquitoes!! The dandelion has a visitor...

 My dog has an instinct to hunt...

 And the buttercups are rissing their heads, opening yellow eyes...

 This, too, has a visitor...

 A bumblebee ravishes the campion

 This peacock butterfly has quite probably spent the winter as an adult - so worn and ragged are it's wings...

What can this ladybird find in this old and properly dry rose hip?

They come in different colors and different sizes... and even doubles...

 And this is me after the walk...