In this opening shot, you can see the lovely red berries of the Solanum dulcamara plant. You can also see a couple of green, unripe fruits among the red ones. Solanum dulcamara is a poisonous plant. It has some good properties but you can't eat the fruits Here you can see the younger version of me with a pretty big zucchini that grew in my garden. This is the Crithmum maritimum, an interesting plant that grows on the rock near the sea. It's edible, it's very aromatic, and I use it very often. Great free stuff to put in a wide variety of salads. In the following photograph ... ... you can take a better, more up-close look at the tiny flowers of that plant that gets often salted by the waves. Here you can see me picking figs in the large orchard on the edge of Medulin, my hometown. This place doesn't exist anymore. An apartment building with almost no vegetation around it is now there. Here you can see the Phleum phleoides grass in the early morning light. In this photograph, I'm standing near a wild carrot flower. In the following photograph, you can take a look at the same kind of flowers from a different angle. The wild carrot (Daucus carota) it's an edible plant. The young roots smell and taste like those of cultivated carrots. The only difference is that the smell and taste are more intense. As the whole plant gets older the roots become too wooden to eat. Here you can see an old oak that grew long ago in the fields outside the town. Nowadays, that tree is surrounded by apartment buildings. It's still there, fortunately, unlike many other impressive trees removed by the construction craze of the last decade I used to climb that tree from time to time. It was easy and the oak had a nice place to sit down between the branches.
Here you'll see (or just saw) ten old photographs taken in 2014. You'll see (or just saw) some plants, wild and cultivated, that grow in my area, and you'll also see (or just saw) me interacting with some of those plants. All photographs are my work. For the shots with me in the picture, the timer of my camera was used. I was running back and forth from the position behind the camera to the spot in front of the lens, trying to reach the right place before the time runs out. It wasn't easy. But I had a lot of fun.
