Wim 🅾 @wim_v12e@octodon.social

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Fun fact about Lady's Mantle: the official name is Alchemilla, from a medieval Latin diminutive of alchimia ‘alchemy’, from the belief that dew from the leaves of the plant could turn base metals into gold.
(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Alchemilla)

The Scots pine is definitely one of my favourite trees. Rothiemurchus forest is one of the few sites where they still grow as a forest. What is really cool is that these trees here are directly descended from the first pines to arrive in Scotland following the ice age, 9,000 years ago.
I think they're magnificent trees.
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Wild thyme and Alpine lady's-mantle.
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@Nightingalle 😃 Not many people call them that😃I guess they look a bit like sea anemones.

Even unripe cherries can make a nice subject for a picture. You can imagine the blossoms from a few months ago.
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@cafou 頑張ってください！

@cafou Ah, the little shops, the temples, the food ... can't wait to go back!

This is sundew (drosera), a little carnivorous plant. In this time of the year it was quite abundant in Glen Einich, although I had not noticed it before.
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This is a wild rose, and because it 's summer in Scotland there are raindrops on it.
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This is the time of the year that orchids are in bloom in the Scottish glens.
I'm not an expert at all, but I found a guide that says the left is a heath spotted orchid and the right is a hybrid of that and the northern marsh orchid.
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A walk in the beautiful Cairngorm valley called Glen Einich. For a long time Loch Einich at the end of this glen provided the drinking water for the Aviemore area. The pictures are not very vibrant because it was raining :)
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@cafou Thank you! More pics to come :)

@CobaltVelvet That made me LOL, and it's so true!