The place is called Cintinera. It's a small hill just outside Medulin, my hometown.
On the 29th of April 2015, I visited it late in the afternoon and photographed some interesting plants that were growing there.
Here you can see a small but showy wild orchid known as the pink butterfly orchid. The scientific name of the species is Anacamptis papilionacea. The orchid, shown in the following photograph ...
... is the Serapias lingua, commonly known as the tongue orchid.
The moon above me looked great in the deep blue sky ...
... especially when seen through the lens of my camera which had the magic power to bring it closer to my eyes.
This is the work of a potter wasp.
The thing has been built among the lower branches of a tree heather shrub (Erica arborea).
Can't tell you which species exactly built the solid little nest with a simple but beautiful design.
In this photograph, you can take a look at the lovely Fraxinus ornus tree.
While rambling around Cintinera ...
... surrounded by interesting shrubs and trees ...
... I found and picked enough edible wild asparagus shoots to form this lovely little bouquet.
Here I zoomed in on the upper branches of an almond tree (Prunus dulcis).
These are the upper branches of a fig tree (Ficus carica).
You can see a pretty big almond tree in this vertical shot. Its trunk and the biggest branches are abundantly covered with ivy (Hedera helix).
Here you can see the moon above the twigs of the large Juniperus macrocarpa shrub.
This is the flower of the Trifolium campestre plant. When I took this photograph ...
... the night was very close.
Trifolium campestre flowers were like little stars in the dusky gloom before my feet.
I revisited Cintinera the next day. The moon looked the same on the last day of April ...
... but everything else was dramatically different.
The preparation works for a large new road have started early in the morning ...
... and all the things I photographed the previous day, had been scrupulously destroyed until the late afternoon.
This photograph was taken a week or so later. You can see a trail left by the excavator machine ...
... and the remains of a hedgehog on that trail. All the following photographs ...
... were taken on the 5th of May 2015 ...
... at dusk.
The gloomy atmosphere suited the devastated landscape perfectly.
The light was pretty low so I was using the night-view option of my small, partially broken compact camera that I don't have anymore. The greenish night-view tinge gave another layer of post-apocalyptic creepiness. It reminded me of colors in Fallout 3, the video game.
In this shot, I turned the shades of green into a classic black & white. You can see Saint Agnes, the biggest church in Medulin, in the background.
The works on the flattening of the top of the hill brought various garbage to the surface. Construction waste has been deposited in Cintinera regularly from the mid-nineties to the mid two thousands, during the construction craze that often didn't bother much about common sense, ethical practices, or the most basic legality. At some point, most of the garbage was covered with a layer of rocks and a bit of local red soil. The plants soon reclaimed the place.
Exploring the old waste on the evening of the 5th of May 2015 was fairly interesting.
And that's it. There isn't much left to say. On the way back home, I photographed this old, twisted pine tree. Its thick branches form a space that looks a lot like a little house or some kind of hideout.
This is the pond at the end of my neiberhood, about two hundred meters from my house.
AS ALWAYS HERE ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK.