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Title: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on March 10, 2010, 06:49:19 AM

Snow has just melted at the top of mountains
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_eb591e0f.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_28b8a137.jpg)

Road with crocuses
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_2ae0ca33.jpg)

Crocus angustifolius
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_846d6bc8.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_e3cdd48c.jpg)

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on March 10, 2010, 06:52:07 AM

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_f379aa38.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_af46f3a5.jpg)

Juniperus WB
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_6bfbb63d.jpg)

Old roman road
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_26efa015.jpg)

Scilla bifolia
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_fd5eec90.jpg)

To be continued...  ;)

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Thomas Huber on March 10, 2010, 10:29:09 AM

 :o :o :o
Thanks Olga - please, I want to see more!!
Did you see Crocus tauricus?

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Maggi Young on March 10, 2010, 10:47:11 AM

Hooray! Olga has been travelling!  8)

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Ragged Robin on March 10, 2010, 11:33:28 AM

Whoopee!  Love the view from the mountain top and the old Roman road....the early flowerings look wonderful against the old dry landscape - looking forward to more  :D

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: mark smyth on March 10, 2010, 11:34:48 AM

what a place to travel to. Did you stay in a hotel?

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on March 10, 2010, 12:19:05 PM

Wow Olga - Great start !
Wonderful pictures of a region we don't often see images of - More please...  :D :D ;)

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on March 10, 2010, 02:04:11 PM

 :-* More...

Thomas,
Crocus tauricus
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_c193bc2f.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_508194f3.jpg)

Galanthus plicatus
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_2524e248.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_021a603e.jpg)

Crocus angustifolius
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_3f0ead7e.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_d5c7ede8.jpg)

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on March 10, 2010, 02:06:32 PM

Mark,
First I lived at my friend's house then we moved to tourist shelter.

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on March 10, 2010, 02:10:47 PM

Euphorbia myrsinites
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_2032489c.jpg)

Primula acaulis
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_e5640105.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_72fad793.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_4945f4f3.jpg)

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on March 10, 2010, 02:16:02 PM

More Crocus tauricus

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_c88e8ab2.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_8d285668.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_765faccc.jpg)

I didn't have enough time to make images so you can see here only typical colour. But when you go through the crocus meadow you could see all kinds - white, very dark, reticular, etc..

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on March 10, 2010, 02:20:02 PM

Sensational Galanthus with only inner petals
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_6cc97833.jpg)

... and the author of the sensation  ;D
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_4206eb9f.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_ec2525a1.jpg)

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on March 10, 2010, 02:23:25 PM

Galanthus plicatus
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_3a873204.jpg)

I didn't find any interesting variations.

To be continued.  ;)

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: art600 on March 10, 2010, 02:24:00 PM

Olga

Thank you for posting atmospheric photos from the Crimea.

The Crocus tauricus are very interesting, especially if you have only captured some of the variability.

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Paddy Tobin on March 10, 2010, 06:36:40 PM

Olga, Lovely report, great photographs and greatly enjoyed.

Paddy

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Thomas Huber on March 11, 2010, 10:06:05 AM

Great plants, Olga - not only the tauricus.
Many thanks for your photos.

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: ian mcenery on March 11, 2010, 04:54:30 PM

Olga wonderful pictures fascinating landscape thanks

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Gerry Webster on March 11, 2010, 05:20:49 PM

Wonderful landscapes & plants. Many thanks Olga.

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Armin on March 11, 2010, 10:10:48 PM

Olga,
thanks for the fascinating wild pictures.

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: cohan on March 12, 2010, 04:37:56 AM

at last i can see your pictures! ;) maybe because i am using google chrome browser for SRGCF?
such a beautiful area--i love those cliffs! the crocuses are lovely, and wonderful images of course..interesting to see the euphorbia which is grown in gardens here even, i think..

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Melvyn Jope on March 12, 2010, 08:23:30 PM

Lovely pictures Olga, many thanks for showing us, I would love to be able to stroll along that old Roman road....

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Olga Bondareva on March 13, 2010, 07:10:59 AM

Thanks to all!  :)

cohan
It was interesting to see this Euphorbia for me to. In the wild it is much more compact than in my garden.

Some life pictures...

Reminders of soviet military camps and places
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_1718b190.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_627eafcd.jpg)

Ordinary Crimea homestead
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_e450ca4a.jpg)

Last year sedum
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_54966204.jpg)

Crocus angustifolius
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_79d4446f.jpg)

... and the weather a day later...
(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_6998683d.jpg)

(http://cs9740.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/106241324/x_1dfc77b7.jpg)

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: Lvandelft on March 13, 2010, 09:03:41 PM

Enjoyed your pictures very much Olga!
Thanks for showing!

Title: Re: Crimea March, 2010
Post by: cohan on March 14, 2010, 07:44:23 AM

volatile climate--its like spring here, but we are not nearly that far yet---there will be no flowers for a while yet!