Hunting for the Letter D - AlphabetHunt

The next round of the cool #AlphabetHunt challenge of Barbara Hive account@barbara-orenya and her Feel Good Community has begun: illustrate 6 words (or concepts) starting with the letter of the week.

This weeks hunt goes for the Letter "D" and I have to admit, this time it was not so easy.

This Grasshopper or Locust, which is named Dark Bush-Cricket I have found last Sunday on my morning walk at the Reservoir. This shot was taken before the rain, but the leaf was still wet from the night before. It is a young Cricket called a Nymph.

Get more information on the Dark Bush-Cricket (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) at Wikipedia.

The word Druse means something else too, but in this case I mean a geological Druse, which is a cavity (Geode) in a rock, incompletely filled with crystal collections of various types.

When I was searching in our apartment for things with the first letter "D" this stone came into my sight and I remembered that is is called a Druse.

Get more information on a Druse (geology) at Wikipedia.

I can think of a quite funny story about a druse: I was on vacation with my wife and friends in Tunisia many years ago. On the markets they had minerals, crystals and also druses with amethysts in the little caves of the stones for sell. Because these purple crystals were beautiful and also very cheap, we all bought such a geode, of course.

Somehow the crystals got dusty during the vacation and I wanted to wash the stone. When the water from the tap ran over the crystals, it suddenly turned deep purple, the amethyst crystals lost their color and became any other crystals, which would have been nice anyway, but unfortunately the purple color could not be washed out of the cracks and rough areas of the crystals, which is why we unfortunately had to throw them away. At least they have been very cheap 😉

Last September I was driving around the lake Wörthersee at sunset time when it began to rain and the just setting sun created this beautiful Double Rainbow.

I was lucky to be on the north shore of the lake already and so I was able to take a few photos of the rainbows and I especially like the one with the Observation Tower on the Pyramidenkogel.

Get more information on the Pyramidenkogel Observation Tower and Rainbows at Wikipedia.

Unfortunately the weather forecast was right yesterday evening, although it didn't look so at first.

We had many clouds in the sky, but there have also been big gaps with sunshine inbetween. So I thought I might have luck and see a nice dramatic and colorful sunset.

The weather forecast predicted a storm, but I didn't believe them and I thought I was right, because on my way up to the mountain from where I wanted to shoot the sunrise I saw beautiful sunrays shining down through the clouds. But as said, the weather forecast was right and it got stormy and rainy. So I decided to make only a timelapse video and wait in my warm car 😊

Oh yes, I know I have said that this week I don't want to post the very obvious things, but it is Spring and what belongs to the Spring? Right, the Dandelion of course 😉

And this Dandelion was somehow special to me, because the blossom was still closed in the morning and "sleeping" with its mop of curly hair.

I have taken this photo also last Sunday on my morning walk at the reservoir. It was raining, but the flower was growing under a tree, so both of us stayed quite dry for a while.

Get more information on the Dandelion (Taraxacum) at Wikipedia.

Actually, I wanted to post these clouds last week in my post to the #AlphabetHunt for the letter "C", but then I found the "Cruiser" in the other photo and took that one.

On my ride back down from the mountain Magdalensberg I saw these somehow interesting and cool looking pattern in these dramatic dark rain clouds, which were not really gray, but had a very blueish tint.

Get more information on Magdalensberg at Wikipedia.

All photos were shot with the Canon EOS R and one of these lenses: Canon RF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS II USM, Canon EF 16-35mm 1:4 L IS USM, Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8 L STM, SIGMA 105mm 1:2,8 DG MACRO HSM, SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM C.

I leave all EXIF and IPTC information stored in the pictures.