While driving around the rural area about thirty-forty kilometers from my hometown ...
... I saw a beautiful tree by the side of the road. Unlike most other trees along that country lane ...
... this one was in bloom.
Its branches were covered with a multitude of lovely white flowers ...
... so I stopped to take a couple of photographs.
Later, at home, after a quick search on the Internet, I found out that these are the flowers of the Prunus mahaleb tree. This plant is a species of wild cherry.
Its small black fruits are edible.
On the small clearance across the road, I noticed some orchids ...
... so I photographed them too. These are the Green-winged orchids (Anacamptis morio).
Not far from the purple orchids, I found these yellow flowers ...
... of the Helianthemum nummularium plant.
A bit further I came across the remains of an old drystone wall covered with various shrubs. There, among the flowers ...
... I saw plenty of moss, so I mounted the macro lens to photograph these small capsules filled with spores.
While observing that small patch of terrain in macro view, I noticed also this minuscule flower of the Saxifraga tridactylites plant. These are definitely the smallest petals I encountered today.
In this generic shot, you can see the young shoot of some plant that I wasn't able to identify, surrounded by a bit of moss.
A bit further, surrounded by lichens, there was this empty shell of some terrestrial snail.
On one of the nearest small, shrub-like trees, I found an old, damaged nest of some small bird.
This plant ...
... that I wasn't able to identify ...
... was photographed near my parked car.
AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END.
