Flower language. Coltsfoot, widely spread early spring flower, also known as ‘Mother-and-Stepmother’ in Russian folklore

Flower language. How would you tell someone “I love you” or “You are special” – you could write a poem or compose a song – or you could give flowers! For thousands of years, people around the world have given special meanings to beautiful flowers and plants. Flower language reached height of popularity during the reign of Queen Victoria in Britain. Dictionaries were written to explain each flower meaning. Here are just a few examples.
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Amelia and her animals

Amelia and her animals
American photographer from New Jersey Robin Schwartz has been photographing her adorable daughter for more than 10 years. Amelia here is in a company of a variety of animals. The result has become impressive – two albums of beautiful and inspiring photographs – “The World of Amelia” and “kinship with animals.” Each album shows a girl next to wild animals to whom, at least as her mother sees it, they are like her brothers and sisters. Schwartz earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Pratt Institute and her photographs are held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Washington, D.C., The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Chrysler Museum of Art, The Bibliotheque Nationale, France and The Museum Folkwang, Germany.
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Beautiful kissing lips of Psychotria Elata

Beautiful kissing lips of Psychotria Elata is not a work of Photoshop, this exotic flower has naturally kissable lips shape of bright red color, and its scientific name is Psychotria Elata. Psychotria is a genus containing 1900 species within the plant family Rubiaceae. Psychotria Elata is a small understory tree in tropical forests whose flowers are affectionately known as hooker’s lips. Some Psychotria species are endangered or facing extinction due to deforestation, especially species of central Africa and the Pacific. Many species, including Psychotria viridis, produce the psychedelic chemical, dimethyltryptamine (DMT). The name Cephaelis is considered a synonym of Psychotria. Psychotria can be found in the tropical rain forests of Central and South America, in such countries as Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador. Beautiful kissing lips of Psychotria Elata attract hummingbirds and butterflies, as well as photographers and tourists from all over the world.
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Most expensive cats. Neva Masquerade, favorite breed of cat of Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister

Most expensive cats. In January, former President of Finland, Tarja Halonen received a gift from Dmitry Medvedev, after he has learned that both cats of Halonen passed away. Medvedev decided to present her a new pet. Selection of the current prime minister fell on the kitten of the same breed as his favorite Dorofei – “Neva Masquerade”. Depending on the class and pedigree the cost of such a breed kittens usually ranges from $ 200 to $ 700 – a lot, but for the market selling pets is not the limit. Forbes chose the 10 most expensive cat breeds.
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Fire river in Kamchatka

Fire river in Kamchatka. These stunning pictures of a volcanic eruption and lava flow were taken by Russian photographers and traveling bloggers Lyudmila and Andrei. Tolbachik volcano is located in the Far East of Russia, in Kamchatka. ‘A little adventure during the very first night at Tolbachik’, Andrey writes. “For us who were at the volcano explosion site for the first time it was quite unnerving. We had been waiting for the dark to come at the site where a lava tube was coming out of the surface. It was a full moon and perhaps it does make a difference on how active the explosion was. Perhaps it was the same principle that works with the tide in the ocean”.
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Unsolved mystery of Pokaini forest

Unsolved mystery of Pokaini forest
In Latvia, not far from Riga, there is perhaps, the most powerful anomalous zone in the world – Pokaini forest. On peculiarities of this place started talking immediately after the Riga researcher Ivar Wicks had told reporters about the strange weather anomalies in the forest and mysterious properties of its stones (in 1996). Soon, however, Wicks died of some unknown disease. So, the study of a strange place continued another scientist – Russian physicist Evgeny Sidorov.
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Red Laguna in Chile

Red Laguna in Chile. In the city of Kamina, on the north of Chile, 147 km from the city of Iquique and approximately 3,700 m above sea level, there is the Red Laguna. Its waters have so bright red hue, that it seems that this lagoon is filled with red ink or blood. Local people knew about this place, but it was not known even to the National Service of Tourism until 2009. This region has long been inhabited by Aymara Indian people, who managed to preserve the ancient secrets and legends of this land. The same as Egyptian tombs have mysterious curse, this red pond also is rumored to be damned, and a curse imposed on anyone who approaches the red waters. That’s why no one knows where exactly the lagoon is, and just for this reason it is not on the map.
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