I haven't seen real otters in ages, but I did find this decoration on an old house in Deventer, The Netherlands yesterday: Pretty, no?

I found this inscription over an entrance to a courtyard with small houses around it in Utrecht, The Netherlands: It says: D.O.M. [Deo Optimo Maximo] Loyal to the poor[,] Adriaen Beyer founded us and Alet

He HODLed.

This comma (Polygonia c-album), gehakkelde aurelia in Dutch, that I saw the other day is a bright orange when seen from the top, but with its wings closed it can do a reasonable impression of a dead leaf:

This scary bug is a parasitoid wasp in the Ichneumonidae family, having a quiet lunch: There are a great many species of these, and they are hard to tell apart, but I think this one is a Gasteruption

Somehow, I missed the swallowtails flying about this year, but they did leave offspring as evidence of their presence, seven caterpillars to be precise. Here are photos of three of them: These big caterpillars

The skies are falling. You can't not stand under them.

Right behind the ever more identical-looking shop facades in the cities, in the alleys and side streets, you can sometimes see what things used to look like before The Fakening: I suppose we all live in

Two photos of two streets in my home town in The Netherlands: The houses in the second photo have since been demolished. They are being replaced with new houses the original inhabitants can't afford. Sound

I know there are far too many photos of sunsets on Steemit, but as this is one of the better ones, I decided to repost it anyway. It is a memory of a cold winter evening: We are currently experiencing

What is a Zutphen, you may ask? Well, it is an old city in The Netherlands, and it is properly old, not "old" in the sense the word is used in the colonies: Zutphen as a town has a history of

This hornet has caught a bee: It is filleting it, while hanging from a tree branch. The head has already been removed: Snap, and there goes a wing: Some further trimming, and the former honey bee is ready

Dear readers, Having shown you two Things on two Walls over the past two days, I realised I was not on the path towards fully understanding wall, and therefore could not transfer any fresh thought on the

This is another photo of another Thing on another Wall. I like providing variety for your viewing pleasure. Once again, what this is or could be is neither here nor there; what matters is my amazing talent

This is a photo of a Thing on a Wall. I remember passing this wall and thinking: "Look, there's a thing on this wall!" I am wont to notice such things, you see, as some photographers are. It

All Steem accounts with a reputation of at least -40 and created before tomorrow can watch this buckyball drop for free! Don't miss out! Just look at it go! Snapshots of collisions between a buckyball

This is a replica of a $100 posting found on or near the Trending Page about tomatoes (using my own photo, of course). Good people! In this post I present a photo of a tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum).

It has been hot in The Netherlands, and the ducks here have been splashing about in unusual ways. I'm not sure if that was because of the heat, or playfulness, or just to bathe, but they appeared to be

Many people are afraid of spiders. Especially for them, I present here some photos of two of the largest species in The Netherlands. These first ones are called wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi), wespspin

Just saying.