Bog excursion

The northern pre-Alps have vast areas of swamps, remnants from the melting glaciers after the last ice age. After draining 95% of these wetlands and peat bogs to create more arable land and pastures over the past 200-300 years, most of the remaining areas are protected now, with a rich, but fragile flora & fauna.

The frog in the third picture was in a group of five, all chilling in a small mud hole bearing the hot day (many of the smaller mud holes nearby were already dried out)... Rising temperatures and hotter summers are a major thread to these unique habitats and their biodiversity...

(The light and scenery in the first two pictures instantly reminded me of some paintings by Ivan Shishkin, one of my favorite landscape painters.)

#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #BloomScrolling #Swamp #Bog #Frogs

Two more panorama photos I took during my hike earlier today. This is from the raised bog "Kleiner Kranichsee"

#forest #wald #RaisedBog #bog #KleinerKranichsee #panorama #wandern #hiking

#FleurisTonFil
Bonjour, ouf.... il ne fait plus trop chaud !

9h03 et 11h05* ce matin : il va encore falloir attendre quelques semaines pour les fleurs** de drosera rotundifolia de la tourbière, mais la saison de la floraison des champs de lin a débuté, timidement encore.
* quand je suis passé vers 8h15, pas beaucoup de bleu sur le champ, mais au retour, on voyait bien la nuance de bleu et ça a valu le coup que je m'arrête
** en fait, ce sont les feuilles qui sont intéressantes à photographier.

#photography #lin #linen #fleur #drosera #tourbiere #Bretagne #Finistere #carnivore #flower #sundew #bog #Brittany #carnivorous

#poemaday #foundpoem #poem #poetry #poet #poets #writing #creative #bog #post

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Jour 22 du #PhotoMai2026 #PhotoMay2026
Thème : Le temps qui passe
(sans Lego)

0,1à 0,2 mm, tel est l'accroissement annuel moyen de l'épaisseur de la tourbière où je me suis promené mercredi dernier. L'âge de cette tourbière est estimé à 5000 ans, faute de datation précise au carbone 14 pour le moment.

The peat bog where I went for a walk last Wednesday grows by an average of 0.1 to 0.2 mm in thickness each year. The bog is estimated to be 5,000 years old.

#photography #tourbiere #bog #Bretagne #Finistere #Argol #drosera