Lencois Maranhenses unique fresh water desert

Lencois Maranhenses fresh water desert. Brazil, with its tropical climate, has no real desert, but still, there is an amazing desert, where in the rainy season coming from the Amazon River basin, raise a lot of fresh water lakes. With the end of the rainy season, the lake is almost completely dry. It remains a mystery how in the rainy season there also appear a lot of fish, crabs and other animals in the lakes. There is a hypothesis that roe to this area is brought by birds arriving from the sea. There is an opinion that it remains in the sand and with the arrival of rains from this roe the aquatic inhabitants are born.
More »

Beautiful pink silk tree Albizia julibrissin

This graceful and beautiful tree Albizia julibrissin has different names: Persian silk tree, pink silk tree, Lankaran acacia, silk tree, bastard tamarind, and sleeping tree. The tree is native to southern Lankaran (Azerbaijan) and in Iran. Cultivated in the Caucasus, is found in the central Caucasus, on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus and the South Coast of Crimea, Russia.
More »

The Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise

The beautiful Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise, found exclusively on the tiny islands of Waigeo and Batanta in West Papua. The bird belongs to the family Paradisaeidae, which are considered the most beautiful birds in the world. But like an unattainable muse, the stunning Wilson’s bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus respublica, Diphyllodes Respublica) from New Guinea remains one of the most poorly known species of the family. The Wilson’s bird-of-paradise is unmistakable with its bright crimson back, yellow cape, shimmering green chest, blue feet, and most of all, its remarkable turquoise crown. That turquoise cap isn’t made of feathers – it’s actually a patch of very brightly colored bald skin, and together with the species’ spiralled twin tail feathers, plays a crucial role in its complex courtship displays.
More »

Beautiful Lotus Flower Rafflesia

Beautiful Lotus Flower Rafflesia is a genus of flowering plants, parasites, which includes about 28 species. Its area covers the territory of Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java and Sumatra. According to unofficial sources, the first Rafflesia was discovered in 1797 on the island of Java, by the French explorer Louis Auguste Deschamps. However, in 1798, when the British captured his ship, all records and illustrations got into the hands of the invaders and were not available to western science until 1954.
More »

Beautiful Glass Beach in California

Beautiful Glass Beach in California. Usually, the throwing trash person affects the environment. Mountains of garbage pollute the air, soil and water, and also cause damage to the natural aesthetic beauty. However, rarely, but still there are some exceptions, when the garbage creates beauty. This happened to Glass Beach, Fort Bragg, California, USA. In the first half of the XX century on that territory there was a dump beach. In the 1960s the landfill was closed, and since then the trash had been left to itself. In 1967, the local authorities closed the beach several times and had worked on cleaning it. Mountains of broken glass, plastic and other debris lay on the shore under the warm rays of the sun, polished by waves, blown by sea breezes, and gradually the whole beach covered thousands of multicolored stones.
More »

Naked man orchid or Orchis italica, commonly known Italian orchid

Mother Nature has created amazing creatures in flora and fauna, where some plants resemble humans. Let’s start with this cute orchid. Naked man orchid or Orchis italica, commonly known as Italian orchid, a species of orchid native to the Mediterranean. They are widely popular for their petals looking like naked men. It prefers partial shade and low nutrient soil and flowers in April. Naked man orchid grows up to 50 centimeters in height, densely clustered flowers, which colors vary from pale to dark and bright pink, the hood has dark pink veins. Naked man orchid is found commonly and widespread in the Mediterranean in often forming dense colonies.
More »

Siberian summer landscapes by Russian photographer Sergey Stepanov

Siberian Summer by Sergey Stepanov. These beautiful pictures of Siberian landscapes were taken by a talented Russian photographer Sergey Stepanov. The amateur photographer Sergey Stepanov was born 10 May 1954, lives in Krasnoturansk, Krasnoyarsk region. “Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world”. Ada Louise Huxtable
More »