I have never seen the gentians in the local peat bog do as well as this year; there are thick clusters of them growing all over: Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO200, f8, 1/80s To be precise, these are marsh

The marsh gentians (Gentiana pneumonanthe), klokjesgentianen in Dutch, are still going strong in the Aamsveen, a peat bog near my home town in The Netherlands: Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/160s

It has taken me several years to find one of these to photograph; eventually, my GF found one last week in the Buurserzand near Buurse, The Netherlands and took me to it. This butterfly is related to the