Before breakfast we walked up the road again, heard the nightingales and inspected people's gardens which were mostly planted with lemon trees.

In the morning we set off to the west to Passo di Ingarano and Dolina Pozzatina

Bosco Di Spina Pulci in the afternoon

Fluffy seed head

Orange tree

Lemon

Solanum jasminoides (garden)

Yellow-legged gull

Ferula communis

We were amazed by the magnificence of the giant fennel

Panorama

Erodium ciconium

Ballota?

Scorzonera hirsuta

Orchis italica

Green hairstreak

Stand of orchis papilionacea

Interesting growth on the rocks

Lupinus varius

Anthyllis vulneraria

Euphorbia characias

Orchis italica

Paul holding an Italian wall lizard

Euphorbia spinosa

Iris lutescens - the purple form

Ophrys bombyliflora

Aceras anthrophorum

Orchis quadripunctata

Iris lutescens

Vicia atropurpurea / benghalensis

Queen of the Castle

Sedum caespitosum

Orchis italica

The cows wore bells and kept an eye on us

Orchis morio

Cream-spot tiger

Beetle

Wall Brown

Anemone hortensis

Small scorpion - Buthus occitanus

Cream-spot tiger struggling out of its chrysalis

Centipede with a nasty bite - Scolopendra cingulatus

Verbascum phoenicium

Smirnium olustrum

Papaver rhoeas

Pisum sativum

Periwinkle - Vinca major

By the lunch stop where the roof of a limestone cave had fallen in leaving a bowl-shaped depression

Buglossoides purpureocaerulea

Orchis morio

White butterfly orchid

Derelict farmhouse with field of lupinus albus

Lackey moth caterpillars

All that was left of a Paeonia mascula

Ornithogalum umbellatum

Anemone apennina

Buffaloes in the woods

Lichen

Cyclamen repandum

Narcissus poeticus

Dactylorhiza romana

Saxifraga bulbifera

Acorn

Cyclamen repandum

Geranium sanguineum

Dactylorhiza romana

Southern festoon posed by Walter

Woodland plants

Woodland floor

Orchid in its habitat

Dactlylorhiza romana

Woods

Arum Italicum

View from the balcony towards the west.   The first night the sky was orange and red, but I did not get a shot.