Cascais - Portugal.

[Originally posted on Mar 11th, 2008]

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Masculine - Feminine

Top line - the Mallard (Anas platyrhyncos); bottom line - the Sparrow (Passer domesticus). The males on the left, the females on the right.

[Originally posted on Feb 17th, 2008]
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Textures and colours of paving stones.

From top to bottom: in Seville (Andalusie, Spain) - Copenhagen (Denmark) - Lourinhã (Lisbon district, Portugal) - Faro (Algarve, Portugal).

[originally posted on Feb 9th, 2008]

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" - All the flowers are beautiful - said the Bronze Boy.
- But there are flowers that aren't quite flowers - said the gladiolus.
- All the flowers are flowers - answered the Bronze Boy very angry."
(free translation from Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, O Rapaz de Bronze, The Bronze Boy)

From the left to the right: top, Chorisia speciosa and Berberis x spaethii; bottom, Narcissus sp and Viburnum tinus.

[originally posted on Jan 30th, 2008]

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The latitude, the light and the water.

From top to bottom (that means from the North to the South): Berlin (Botanical Garden) and Potsdam (Sans Souci), in Germany; S. Pedro do Sul (Vouga River) and Silves (Arade River), in Portugal.

[originally posted on Jan 18th, 2008]

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The only sparrow that doesn't fly away when I get out onto my balcony...

(Passer domesticus on Celtis australis)

[originally posted on Jan 3rd, 2008]

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