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| On the way to visit the 'dievdirbe', a lady who makes religious artefacts, we stopped on the side of the road to pick some berries. It was the right time of year, so little strawberries and blueberries absolutely everywhere.... |
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| Close up. Small stawberries, tangy and sweet, these are called "zemouges". The blueberries were delicious. You can also see the moss that carpets the floor of these forests. Sphagnum, maybe. Very soft underfoot. |
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| My favourite photo of Jazmina... |
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| Thisis what the forest looks like , the whole forest floor is carpeted with berry bushes. Hansel and Gretel land. Unlike the Australian bush, there's no sense of danger, no snakes, no poisonous spiders...all the bears and wolves have been hunted out, so nothing to be at all scared of. |
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| Rimante's house, from the inside. Some of her sculptures and icons scattered around. |
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| Out the back, she had a whole lot of bee hives... |
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| Some of her work.. |
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| Her house from the outside. |
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| More beehives. Colour coded, so the bees find their way home. |
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| This is what the bees were feeding on,not sure what it is, but the honey was white and fairly bland... |
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| Little ramps to help them get back home |
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| This is actually from another day, walking past someone's hives in Kernave. |
