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A small farm & vineyard in Akhateli village, Georgia, South Caucasus: the very homeland of the domestic wine grape ~8000 years ago. Apologies/you're welcome. Sharing farm updates & agriculture pics from around our region. Take a look: akhateli.org

potted mango with bright purple leaves atop, irritating fluorescent pink gardenhose in background went unnoticed

აქართველოს სახელმწიფო ელექტროსისტემის ინფორმაციით, ქვეყნის დიდ ნაწილში ელექტროენერგიის გათიშვა გამოიწვია საქართველო–თურქეთის 400 კვ-იანი ელექტროგადამცემი ხაზის „მესხეთის“ ავარიამ. ამის შედეგად შეწყდა თურქეთიდან ელექტროენერგიის იმპორტი და ქვეყნის უმეტეს ნაწილს დროებით შეეზღუდა ელექტრომომარაგება. ამჟამად მიმდინარეობს ელექტროენერგიის ეტაპობრივი აღდგენა

closeup four open yellow lily blossoms in the sunset

closeup - a near-girdled grapevine trunk chewed up by a string trimmer/weedwacker

bright yellow rose blossom with red /orange striations

a bundle of new red/yellow striped rose blooms (surrounding a much older predecessor blossom)

small orange/red striped rose which resembles a marigold, when myopic

BEFORE: red sunset in distance + grapevines, pear tree, Paulownia; blurry sunflower in foreground

photo by Richard Jezik; long exposure, 493.07 km view across the eastern black sea from northeastern turkey to the Greater Caucasus in the distance.

"The longest line of sight on earth photographed is 493.07 km (306.37 mi), achieved by Richard Jezik (Slovakia), in Giresun, Turkey, on 15 December 2024.

Richard has photographed long distance observations since 2018 and in 2023, he was curious to see if he could achieve a world record distance. He monitored weather conditions closely to find the right window and right location. After a lot of travelling he arrived at Aksu village. The village wasn't accessible by car due to snow and ice so he hiked to the summit. After 10 hours of climbing, he stood on the summit with moonlight providing enough light to set up his equipment. At midnight, he recalls that the temperature was around -12°C with winds around 8 m/s. He remained there all night capturing panoramic photos. Before sunrise, the wind picked up to roughly 20-25 m/s and the battle of capturing his world record image began. He planned to capture the image at sunrise to improve contrast and whilst he is pleased with the final result, he is already making plans for his next record-breaking image."

screenshot of flood reporting, photo attribution just “Kakheti” - no place in particular, and via “social media” - no person in particular.

“Local residents say hectares of vineyards have been completely destroyed, leaving them without this year's harvest.

Flooded vineyard in Kakheti. Photo: social media”

a few bright orange california poppies, aliens to this land

hospital clinic door blocked by water mud rocks

2m diameter concrete reservoir overfilled with dried fig branches, empty one to the left

https://bm.ge/news/samushaoebi-mimdinareobs-zarali-jer-ar-vitsit-telavis-meris-moadgile

red-orange sunflower, pollen on its leaves, facing the wall instead of the sun - behind it

a bushy cypress (C. sempervirens) between a tombstone and an open church door - a ruin in Shvanidzor, Armenia

an odd undulating stormfront tracks over the alazani valley vineyards, greater caucasus in the background

red epiphyllum blossom closeup, in front of rusty steel bars

a video of a funnel cloud near sunset, followed by hail - it eventually touched down - damage yet to be reported

blossoming Vicia villosa climbing up a small grapevine stalk

hailstorm pelts parked cars & trees

shepherd films his flock under a dense hailstorm

giant hail falling along riverside

a backyard pelted by hailstorm, flooded & plied high in street

giant crevasse blasted by lightning, Tbilisyan Highway, near Sevan Armenia

a violet orchid inflorescence on a bight green backdrop, assorted foliage

follow request in my inbox, 'Julie Patchouly followed you'

cluster of unknown mushrooms growing from retired walnut roots, note a different button mushroom emerging lower left

closeup very tender new leaf and a cluster of grape flower buds

white/faintly pink-yellow tinted rose under rain + custom-made steel support

a horizontal stem of red roses weaved through a wire fence, one blossom in full bloom, a huge unkempt rosebush looms in background (not pictured)

red/green backlit pomegranate new growth, grapevine rows and deflated scarecrow in background

columbine (Aquilegia) blossoms against the sky

several asparagus spears winding upward, strapped to a broom handle

mushroom sprouting from a bank of silty soil

backlit willow catkins against the sky

a (relatively large) solitary raspberry blossom on a cane tied to a bamboo stake

closeup: golden currant blossoms

screenshot from local hardware store website, where an English translation (from the abnormal word “მოტოცელები”) gives you “MOTOR SCYTHES”

new angle on a the cap of a strange purple mushroom in the leaf litter - also a photo res & bluesky uptime test

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide

cherry blossoms, orange from the sunset

eerie purple mushroom in the leaf litter

panning across the high blossoms of jonjoli (Staphylea colchica) trees

closeup: solitary dark violet magnolia blossom

juvenile Cercis in flower, planted along fenceline, at sunset, grapevines in background

a bed of garlic chives poking up through a thick layer of pink wine sediment and lees

closeup of (mostly) pollinated heirloom cornelian (cornus mas) flowers

closeup, a single drop of grapevine sap dripping from a cut where the vine was pruned several months ago

vine rows & farmland/village in background under heavy snowfall

a colony of wild dogwood suddenly visible due to snowfall, soviet shipping container in background

overview of village homes and a small trial vineyard + hazelnuts in foreground, winter sunset

staked asparagus fern covered in fresh snow, forest in background

cinder stone covered in ice/snow, hung by hemp rope from an apricot tree branch

tamarind tree condemned to a pot, indoors, lit from below by a multi-spectrum plant light

closeup of dried castor (Ricinus communis) seed pods drenched with soggy snow, now exuding some coloured liquid