What if the earth isn't flat nor round ... but more like ... I don't know, a spiral pile of crap or something. You know, like some divine excrement left after the God or some other Creator dude left to go play with time & space in some other universe. That would surely mean that the Earth is special and sacred. Or there wasn't any Creator to begin with. It's just how things behave, everything leads to some shit eventually. I mean, everything is so strange, dude.

Yes, Orthoptera. Grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, bush crickets - all that good stuff. (Enlargeable)In today's post, I collected most insects from the order Orthoptera, which I photographed from 2007 to 2009 using the Canon EOS 350D camera, the 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens, and the Canon Macro Ring Lite MR-14. Ah, those were the times. Despite not being present on any social network, I felt more socialized than now. Social networks with their fabricated, often exaggerated emotionality, their strong tendency to elevate banality, and a myriad of morronic written & unwritten rules regurarely wake up a sociopath in me.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I heard that one quite a few times so far. Well, don't know about that. It can make you wiser, that's my experience. (Enlargeable)I published a post a couple of days ago. The following link can lead you right into that old story. It was about Skyrim, just like this one. I wrote a chronicle of some Thieves Guild's shenanigans I got involved in. The end of that post was a cliffhanger of sorts. So, if you are a faithful follower of my work and character here on Hive, there is a chance you'll be eager to know what happened next.

I played Skyrim regurarely, every day for an hour or two, a few months ago when the screenshots for today's post were taken. I hope I'll be able to successfully reconstruct the story of the quest I'm presenting here from the pictures becouse my recollection of what I played back then in November or December 2024 is vague and quite foggy.

Quite a few old, photogenic churches can be found in Pula, the nearest city to the place where I live. They were built in different periods throughout the city's long, dynamic history, so they display a wide array of art styles incorporated into the sacral architecture.

Pazin is a small city built at the bottom of a bowl. Or a basin. Something like that. It's a place surrounded by hills. Yesterday I had to do some stuff there so I took a few shots for today's post which won't be very long.