It was an ordinary evening in June 2021. Warm and dry. After a day of swimming and snorkeling in the shallow waters near the shore, I was walking the dusty coastal road. A bunch of friends was there with me.
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The atmosphere was nice and quiet, the meadows looked great in the evening light, so I took a couple of photographs along the way.
Here you can see the young, still wingless, Conocephalus hastatus bushcricket gorgeously lit by the light of the setting sun.
In this photograph, taken a bit later, you can take a look at the coastal landscape and the distant blue hills across the bay.
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For the most part, the road was bordered by shrubs and meadows. In many places, the wild carrot (Daucus carota) was the dominant plant.
We passed through only one shady green tunnel ...
... made of a small group of Carpinus betulus trees.
There, under the trees, the atmosphere was very different from the one on the open meadows.
I stopped to photograph this grass, covered with many minuscule flowers ...
... the Paspalum distichum grass ...
... and this fruit fly from the Tephritidae family.
In this photograph, you can take a look at a nice sample that shows the mix of plants typical for the meadows in this seaside area. Various grasses, Wild carrots, Golden thistles (Scolymus hispanicus), and dried out Rumex crispus plants with a multitude of small seeds.
These unripe blackberries were photographed on the other side of the road.
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While sniffing around those shrubs ...
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... a friend got caught by the plant. 🤣😀😂
This Trigonidium cicindeloides cricket was photographed on the herbaceous vegetation under the shrubs.
Near the end of that evening walk, when the night was almost there ...
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... we were passing by some fields, only sparsely covered with old, rotting cabbages left after the harvest, and a rich, dense growth of various weeds.
Here you can see how that intricate vegetal pattern spread on the ground looked from a human perspective.
Here my attention got caught by the small, interestingly shaped flowers ...
... of the Kickxia lanigera plant.
The light was getting rapidly low ...
... so I started shooting the easiest way - with the flash.
But the hairy plant looked great in the subdued light of the dusk ...
... so I put the camera on the ground and using little stones and twigs arranged it to get the long exposure compositions you see in these last few photographs of the post.
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And that's it ... well, almost ...
... I have one more picture to show. Here you can see Liznjan, the nearest village, very visible from that stretch of coastline. Since the post is titled "SUMMER EVENING IN BETWEEN LIZNJAN AND THE SEA" it wouldn't feel complete without it.
AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END.
