quite fitting, at the moment:
try to remind myself that i was happy here
before i knew that i could get on a plane and fly away
from the road where the cars never stop going through the night
to a life where i can watch the sunset
i don’t have time
i don’t have time
...i’m not even away yet.
hahaha - we just spent 3 hours cutting back on our travel itinerary, and eventually realized that we actually had one whole week more than we thought.
now we need to find something to do ;-)
after a rather exhausting day of work, i can look back at an unexpected encounter:
in case you can’t tell which is which: the pair of pointed shapes in the lower right is the mother’s ears. its baby is clinging on tightly and makes up the left half of the furry ball.
like all young microbat babies, it’s hanging with its head up at first. later on, the preferred position will be head down.
this summer, i’m working in a project to support certain species of bat indirectly by aiding their respective habitats. although i didn’t expect to see one of the nursery roosts themselves, i did today. the number of bats in this colony is rising, and a high percentage of the females (such as the one in the photo) are currently raising their young.
it was clearly the highlight of the day.
last week, while working a "night shift" (so to speak), i came across a hedgehog that was caught in a piece of plastic with a hole in it. the plastic ring was stuck right between its front and hind legs. it seemed to have gotten used to the situation and was just going to live with this (very flat, very tight, and totally-missing-the-point-) hoola hoop.
i was able to remove it without anybody (neither the hedgehog nor me) getting hurt.
this marks the first time i’ve actually seen for myself that throwing such things away without cutting them through first can be dangerous to the local wildlife.
(image source: dpiw.tas.gov.au)
wordpress’ "post via email" function might come in handy, so here’s a
first attempt to see whether it works with these settings or not.
if you can see the photo of backlit coloured raw glass chunks, picture
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update: according to wordpress codex, image attachments are not yet supported. :-(
i was supposed to be working in the field around hainzenberg (in the ziller valley), but for most of the day it was raining so hard, that i considered building an ark. thanks, thor!
yesterday, however, was a beautifully sunny day, and i’m hoping that the next days will be alike:
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little sidenote: it’s usually about the time when my friends wish me "nice holidays" that i realize i’ve cramped up almost the entire summer with all things work. will i ever learn to reserve a few days for relaxing time at home? probably not.
(i’m uploading this through a GPRS connection - it takes forever to something as simple as reloading a text page.)
