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I did not have many blooms from my cacti this year. Overtime, I lost some that bloomed every year. Some suffer a bit. Others have maybe one flower here and there. I do enjoy every single one of them, but

Nothing like a lazy Sunday accompanied by the perfect weather to stay home with a book under the blanket. Love those days... from time to time :) And especially after a busy week. Other times I would prefer

It's early spring, the weather is just warming up, and nature is slowly waking up. Very slowly... though some flowers like to be first. The forests are still pretty empty and that includes mushrooms. At

And so we are back to the Alcobaça Monastery. It will take me a while to show you all the amazing rooms one by one. They all deserve the attention and with the amount of photos it is impossible to throw

Visiting Alcobaça Monastery, you cannot miss the majestic church. Stunning on the outside, but when I entered (I will still show photos of that another time) I was stunned by the size of it. Big space,

They are always first! And they scream "Yo, spring is here!" :) The tiny, little snowdrops. Very often they would grow when there is still snow on the ground. The leaves would pierce through

Not long ago I mentioned a very messy and dense forest I went to in search of mushrooms. And as much as I tried to find the nice, edible ones I wasn't very lucky. But the place was quiet, humid and had

Wojnowice is a very small village not far from Wroclaw in Poland. Only a few hundred people live there and and it is hidden among forests, fields, and not very popular roads. And I would have never heard

Last summer I committed cactus sowing! I did not plan it; it just happened :p All the seeds come from my own cacti that bloomed last year. And I really was not planning to sow any, but I cleaned the dry

I almost missed today's caturday (like many other times anyway). I wanted to take some photos of the Furry Diva, but she was just lazing all day and I was busy and then it got dark... and a million other

This was a completely unknown part of the forest for me. A curiosity to check if there were any mushrooms there won, but it wasn't as good as I was hoping. The place was still pretty nice but very wild

About three months ago I was posting about blooming mammillarias. And now I have three more that bloom earlier than the rest. I just started to water the cacti to wake them up for spring. The temperatures

On the way to the magic forest where all the cool mushrooms grow I pass a few fields. In the fall, most are already empty, or some dry stems stick out as a reminder of what was growing there before. But

Finding a nice mushroom proudly sticking its hat above the mosses is always fun. But finding a few different types growing next to each other is even better! And I am pretty sure some like each other's

In some European countries it is believed that ferns protect us from evil. For others it symbolizes rebirth. And I have no idea where I got it from, or it was some strange story I heard as a kid, but I

I wanted to wait a little longer for another orchid to open, but it might take a few weeks, and by that time some of these would be gone. So she is not in the photos. Her loss :p Four orchids this time,

I grew up in the countryside, and we always had cats. One or more, but there was always a tabby or black one around. They are fed and have a place to sleep but are free to ram around as they please, and

There is a time that arriving at a place too early is a good thing. A very good thing! The closed door with a strict timetable makes you walk around to kill the time and find more cool things that could

It is almost December. Cacti should go to sleep by now, but they don't, because it is a bit too warm for them. And so today, when I was sipping my morning coffee, I spotted something pink on one of my

I absolutely adore hydrangeas! The huge, fluff clusters of tiny, delicate flowers. They can grow to quite large bushes with dark leaves and look just spectacular! And so it happens that mum also likes