The Travel Giraffe

[Hans A.]

Stellan, thanks a lot for posting this superb pictures of plants and vastness! Just breathtaking!

[stellan]

Sorry, but the Booker is going to be ever so slightly controversial again.   Am I the only forumist who would prefer to see one or two of these truly magnificent images without our little orange friend and tourist guide?
The majority of us will never get to these remote and beautiful places and, while it is humorous and an excellent indicator of scale to see our favourite traveller in certain situations, he can prove a distraction when close-ups of glorious and unusual plants are being observed?
My apologies Stellan, your wonderful contributions are welcomed and heartily enjoyed, but I'm just an old grouch really.

Here is the link for you

http://www.sandstorm.se/silkroad/bilder_2009/kaz_blommor_2/bilder_kaz_blommor_2.htm

/Stellan

[ranunculus]

Many thanks Stellan ... hope Gerry doesn't bear a grudge?   

Your images are magnificent.

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you for both links Stellan. I just love those giraffes and they obviously love their plants.

[shelagh]

Funny we didn't spot that Ethiopian Giraffe when we were at Peter's last year!

[ChrisB]

He was probably on his travels Shelagh 

[Lesley Cox]

And they probably go indoors if it rains or is misty.

[stellan]

Long time and no new pictures...

Gerry is still traveling and are still in Kazakhstan. Here are some of the spingflowers from this year

[stellan]

Here are more. Can only send few pictures in each post...

[stellan]

If you don't like Gerry you can see the flowers without him on my website...

Sping flowers from Kazakhstan 2010-04-19

Springflowers from Kazakhstan 2010-05-06

Index of pictures 2007-2010 Sorry, it's in Swedish...

[cohan]

Me and Gerry are now in Semnan and here are some photos from yesterday in the mountains northeast from here.

/Stellan

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i've just come across this thread since it was re-awakened--great stuff! so this is just stellan and gerry the giraffe travelling by bicycle? quite some trips! thanks for sharing these amazing places and plants...
any ideas what the asteraceae in this post was?

[stellan]

I don't know the Asteraceae... It's related to Scorzonera and Tragopogon but I think it's a different genera.

/Stellan

[cohan]

I don't know the Asteraceae... It's related to Scorzonera and Tragopogon but I think it's a different genera.

/Stellan

thanks, that's a general direction, at least, i couldn't think of that much even

[ashley]

Great to hear from you and Gerry again Stellan    What part of Kazakhstan are these pictures from?

Can anyone identify this Ranunculaceae on Stellan's website, here?

[Ian Y]

What a welcome return of Gerry and Stellan this is.

We are glad you are both fit and travelling again looking at the plants.

Simply wonderful pictures - oh to be there and see such sights - Tulips, Fritillaria, Pulsatilla all fabulous.


Stellan are all the Fritillaria pictures from the same location? There seems to be two species one with leaf tendrils and one without.