On 11/Sep./2021, we went to Marchaevo village. There is a nice forest right next to the village where we may go every once in a while. It’s not a very popular place so we could enjoy some peace and quiet — which is always a nice thing. :-)))

An experiment — let’s give some tangerines and bread to the red-black ants… and see what happens a couple of hours later!

Just a crop of the previous photo. I love all the details that the Pixel 4 was able to capture in this macro.

A Scottish thistle, also known as Onopordum acanthium.

Brambles. They were tasty, too, not only beautiful!

“The Peaceful Forest”

“The Peaceful Forest, Part II”

A magical web.

Birches at sunset.

The experiment, three hours later — the bread has 100% disappeared; while the tangerines were still work-in-progress. :-)

A deer, staring at our car!

When we were going back to Sofia, Ani suddenly saw a deer! A young beautiful deer. We have never seen a deer around these places — but lo and behold! here it was. We tried a shot or two, but of course, a digital zoom is no match to an optical one and the photos were blurry and pixelated. Still… more important is that we saw this beautiful animal. :-)

The deer stared at us for a minute or two, and we stared at the deer. Then it left — jumping elegantly, it soon disappeared in the woods next to this meadow.

This was the most magical thing of that day…

*update* (10:37): Ani made a better photo — still blurry but it’s better, here’s a crop: