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@helenclayton
Heating went back on here, the Saints de Glace have come early...

@sander
I tried spinning it up on a pi3b at home, and a pi4 (running ubuntu server) in the office. The home experiment, well, it was just that, performance was pretty bad even within the home lan. The pi4 at work faired better, but it kept freezing, which is a bit of a bummer when you're trying to sync files and calendar data. Suffice it to say I didn't get around to trying one of the document editing apps, or opening the instance up to remote access.

@sander last time I played around with it, I think I started at the Nextcloud store to see which modules might take my fancy, and went from there.

You know summer is coming when the most colourful of our local lizards can be found sunning itself in the borders.
This male hasn't quite come into full mating colour, as the blue is still quite pale, but he didn't seem too bothered.
A few minutes earlier, my wife filmed him on the grass snatching a wood cricket that had the misfortune to jump into his line of sight. I have seen them eating other, smaller lizards, for whom they will lie in wait under cover of a nearby rock, water butt, or bush. They are lightning fast, and the noisiest of all the lizards we have as they charge through the undergrowth.
#auvergne
#France
#WesternGreenLizard
#reptiles

Picture of the head and upper body of a bright yellow -green on black lizard. The jaw and neck are a bright pale blue. One open eye is pointing towards the camera. The toes are nearly all bright yellow with thin black bars.

More insect hunting today, before the thunderstorms arrived. This violet carpenter bee is one of a seemingly increasing number in the area, or maybe it is down to a very mild winter.
#xylocopaviolacea
#violetcarpenterbee
#auvergne
#massifcentral
#France

Picture of a large black bee with transparent dark brown wings, feeding on a choisyea flower, in the centre right of the frame. The background is blurred green and white.

@DavidBridger one might write, quite simply:

C1: "Merci pour ce repas formidable !"
C2: "Vous êtes (un grand) magicien !"

but that might not convey the context and register of the exchange.

@DavidBridger what is the socio-educational status of the French couple, as that would probably impact the choice of vocabulary?

@sheepnik as in, "The Final Frontier" kind, or some other kind of meditational space?

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@GEDANKENTaenze @impfmilf

Kiesel-Glocken-Enzian
und
Frühlings-Enzian

(Auf einer Bergwanderung am 13.04.2025 fotografiert)

#Novalis #BlaueBlume #Flora
#wandern #hiking #natur #nature

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Now that I know they have arrived at their new home, I can share the latest finished chooks. Yes, there's two this time, a pair that I thought of as Rhubarb and Custard, after a comment that someone made on the colour of the yarn.

Of course Myfanwy had to pass on her knowledge and wisdom before their departure. The newest members of the cluckwork are fully prepared to provide plentiful emotional support in their new home.

A larger knitted chicken, mostly pink and orange, with a small orange chick by her side, seen sideways on.

Two knitted chickens - one pink and orange, and one a teal-ish colour - seen sideways on and facing each other against a white walk.

Came across this architecture in Vienna earlier this week, and found it "interesting" 🤔. Took it at face value, which means it got stored away in my brain's memory with a "weird" tag. I now know that the building is the Technical University library and the sculptor was a "fantastic realist", to which I'll confess my complete lack of knowledge. I'm not entirely certain that knowing more about this art movement would change my memory tag. Anyway, happy #Fensterfreitag
#Fensterfriday
#tuwien
#brunoweber

Picture of the corner of the outside of a modern building. The sky above is cloudless and blue. The corner is adorned with what looks like an Egyptian style representation of a bird standing on a pillar, and extends from the ground nearly up to the top of the building. Along the top edges, there are smaller owl-like sculptures which serve as gargoyles. The windows of the building are delimited by black metal square frames, with the corner window extending along two sides from the corner pillar statue.

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#Moth box part 2 is fewer cute fuzzy faces and more beautiful diversity.

1) White Ermine (top left) - quite common but surprisingly my first ever.

2) Brindled Beauty (top right) - absolute belter

3) Nut-tree Tussock - (bottom left) a frequent visitor & one of my faves

4) Toadflax Brocade (B right)

#MothsMatter #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #moths #butterflies #mothsandbutterflies #britishwildlife #garden #spring #entomology #lepidoptera #insects #cute #animals #conservation #alttext

Overhead shot of a chunky 2cm arrowhead shaped moth on a finger. It is creamy white with random black dots. It resembles ermine, the bright white fur of stoat, speckled with the black tips of stoat tails, hence its name White Ermine. It has two black wiry antennae pointing left and right

Overhead shot of a 2.5cm chunky triangular moth on a finger. It resembles a lush carpet. It has a furry, ginger abdomen which peeks out between two beautiful carpeted wings. They are steel grey with black peppery dusting and three black wavy lines running horizontally. It has two leaf-shaped feathered antennae.

Side on shot of a 1.5cm chunky moth on a finger. It is quite short and stumpy with a round furry head and wings held close to its abdomen. The colour is brindled with no distinct pattern, just hints of warm reddish-brown, grey, and black in two halves. Looking side on, the right side, nearest the head is darker with a small bullseye stigmata. The left side, nearer the back wing edge is distinctly lighter, albeit the same brindling.

Overhead shot of a small 1cm moth on a finger. It is triangular shaped. It has a velvety, dappled appearance of olive green, old gold, browns and grey, with two distinct white kidney-shaped stigmata, one on each wing. It is meant to resemble brocade material, but that is a tenuous stretch. Though it is a pretty handsome moth.

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A mild, still night produced a high number of #moths. First set of highlights included

1) Pale Tussock Moth - huge floofy legs

2) Miller - as if doused in milled flour

3) Iron Prominent - dark and moody

4) Poplar Lutestring - neat and tidy little thing

#MothsMatter #moth #butterflies #mothsandbutterflies #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insects #animals #creatures #naturalworld #cute #garden #spring #alttext #biodiversity #conservation

Overhead shot of 3cm chunky triangular moth on wood. It is dusty light grey, almost dusty white. It has two extremely fluffy legs that point out in front of its head and two orange leaf-shaped, feathered antennae pointing left and right.

Overhead shot of 2cm chunky, arrowhead moth on a finger. It has a furry head and two wiry antennae. Its colouring is light dusty grey with black flecks. It is called a Miller as it looks as if it has been showered with flour.

A side on shot of a 3cm chunky moth on a finger. It holds its wings close to its abdomen, not spread out. It is wedge-shaped with a diagonally sloping back wing edge. it is a handsome dark iron grey with flecks of gold and a big fluffy leg pointing out in front.

A side on shot of a 1.5cm tubular shaped moth on a finger. It faces right. It has a cute little face. It is handsomely marked in warm light brown with two dark bands made up of four brown lines (or lutestrings) across is wings, one near the head end and one near the back wing edge. The lutestring lines are not very obvious on this specimen, but they are more visible on an overhead shot.

When I say that the Mexican Orange attracts pollinators, I'm not exaggerating. Among today's motley crew are a swallowtail butterfly, a honey bee, a painted lady butterfly and a capricorn beetle. There were literally too many insects on the bush to count.
#auvergne
#insectopia
#France
#pollinators

Picture of a swallowtail butterfly with wings open, on white choisyea flowers.

Picture of a honey bee, feeding on choisyea flowers. A large sac of orange pollen is visible, hanging from a back leg.

Picture of a painted lady butterfly, upside down on choisyea flowers, with wings open.

Picture of a capricorn beetle feeding on choisyea flowers, its head and mouth parts are covered in pollen.

Like the gazillion other insects that have decided to come and feast on the nectar of the flowers of our choisyea bush, this green hairstreak also came for the picnic. This is the first time, I think, that I've seen a green butterfly outside of a butterfly farm, so I tried getting a decent enough picture with my phone from a distance without frightening it off or falling off the rockery I was perched on.
#auvergne
#France
#GreenHairstreak
#MexicanOrange
#butterflyphotography

Picture of a group of white choisyea flower heads with a bright green butterfly with closed wings to the right and centre of the frame.

@hastingsmothman
I should really pay more attention to the ones around our house and garden 👍

@hastingsmothman beautiful 😍

What to do after a hard day's grind listening to case law reports? Well, we just happened to discover the #Naschmarkt, an outdoor market with indoor and outdoor eating and drinking opportunity, as we were wandering around kind of aimlessly. So we sat down sat down at a local Viennese food and drink bistro and enjoyed both along with the general ambiance. I was surprised at how animated it all was (not really obvious from the photo), but the place filled up between 6 and 8 pm and was bustling. Pretty much all tastes catered for, as far as I could tell.
#Wien
#oesterreich
#austria
#vienna

Picture taken from a table outside a bistro looking across an alley to an opposite located bistro selling schnitzel, ribs and other Viennese food. To the right are signs indicating the types of wine sold at a neighbouring wine bar. The blue sky is visible through a break in the overhanging rain canopy, offering shade.

@helenclayton Sounds like a perfect day out! 👍👍

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