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Ludmila Carone
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My goodness: It's full of planets!

European in Graz.

Often to be found at Space Research Institute at Graz!

(Yes, Graz hosts the Austrian Space Research Institute. It's awesome, check it out!)
(Ja, Graz hat die Weltraumforschung und sie ist toll)
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Surprisingly flowery walk to work today.

Überraschend viele Blumen auf dem Weg zur Arbeit.
Yellow house, red roof, sun in the back. Walnut tree in front as well as red and yellow flowers. Yellow flowers growing high into the autumn blue sky with some haze. Red and white flowers and a bare branch with ripe yellow apples. Red, yellow and white flowers.
October 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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I mean the weather was glorious: 28 °C. And the landscape...

Here's where we live ( 20 mins away by car). South/eaat Styria

Das Wetter war auch toll. Und die Postkarten-Landschaft. Und hier leben wir jetzt: Südoststeiermark.
September 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Ich bin ganz zufrieden mit dem Beifang auf der Weinberg-Wanderung.

The tour thru the vineyard yielded nice additional benefits.
Left, bowl of walnuts. Right chestnuts.
September 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Es ist Aufsteiern!
On way to Hauplatz Graz. Flowers, Trachten, Musik
September 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Why am I not suprised that the Irish don't like a certain US person.
Colourful mural with notable people, 1 alien (et), Mikey mouse lining up for a music venue. A certain president's face has been scratched out and a swastika arm band was added. The irish are not subtle.
June 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Dublin is today all about PRIDE.
Lovely street in "Liberties" quarter witj Pride flags and generally preparing for a party. Charity shop declaring "love is love"
June 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Trains rock. Now I have lovely and very affordable train from Cork to Dublin. To stumble with my lugguage thru the Pride parade b/c I didn't realize that it is this Saturday here.
View from train on soft irish green meadows with typical Irish weather: grey drizzle. Cup of coffee where it took me, a woman with a PhD, some time to figure out. It has a kind of special lid with an in-built sieve to drink from. Brought to table b/c only 1. class tickets were left. 1.class seats in train in Ireland
June 28, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Der Rosmarin hat echt hübsche Blüten.

The rosemary plant has pretty blossoms.
2 hell-lila Blüten in grünem Rosmarin, die fast an kleine (0.5 cm) Lilienblüten erinnern. 2 light-pink blossoms in green rosemary that resemble small (0.5 cm) lilac flowers.
May 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Happy easter from the easter night fire in front of the Vienna Jesuit or University Church.
The Jesuit / University Church of Viena. Proof that science and religion can go hand in hand. It is after sun-set. Lantern stand in front of the brilliant white church fassade. It is a high baroque church. So even the white outside has alcoves with several life-sized and very detailed statue. In front of the church is the tiniest easter fire I have ever seen. A fire place the size of a bigger dinnerplate with a few logs. The fire illuminates the cobblestone of the piazze in front of the church. About 8 people are standing around the scenery. It's actually a pretty scene tinged with soft yellow.
April 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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TL cleanse:
That was the week before the orange menace took over.
US capitol made of snow in front of the real capitol. Brilliant blue sky with streaks of white fluffy clouds. White snow on the ground. The snow builder is still at it. Several ppl stand happily around it. One person takes a selfie b/c of course.
April 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Went to @esa.int ESTEC last month and I had to bask in the glory of cool space craft models.
This is PLATO with its rack of 28 individual telescopes to observe the shit out of nearby (100 parsec) transiting exoplanets. It's not the most elegant space craft. One may even call it chonky. Still, it will hopefully find an Earth-sized planet around a G-type star. Probably an Exo-Venus. We will see. The James Webb Space Telescope on the other hand is elegant as heck. Hexagonal mirror. With its multi-layered heat shield below it observes the shit out of many (mostly Infrared) things: The earliest galaxies, protoplanetary disks, debris disks, the outer Solar system gas giants ...oh and some exoplanets. For example barren rocks around M dwarfs. JUICE it's still out there and had two very long solar cell arms to make the most out of the dim Sun light at Jupiter's orbit. 85 m2 solar wings. That's bigger than my appartment. The Jupiter ice moons explorer will try to get the most info from sub-ice sheet oceans in Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. It will reach its destination in 2031. Are there organic molecules somewhere? How thick are these oceans and the ice crust above? Are they salty? Is this good or bad for life? *Sigh* Such a long time to wait
April 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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What is this? It's the Filzkunstwanderweg in Kainbach bei Graz. A small hiking trail with felt art.
This is a rectangular piece of felt hung between two small trees in the wood in muted reddish, yellow, brown and pink. It shows a pink withou leaves but with white and pink blossoms with a setting Sun behind. Left and right hangs on felt-mushroom with an orange top. A series of felt-flags hanging from a line between a few thin trees. We have a fly agaric,a brown triangle with a white alpaca depicted. Other triangles and rectangles are more abstract witj swirls, stripes and dots and divers colors. This is an ornamantal bronze ball. Think about arabic ornamental geometric forms being carved out of the ball. Around it are hanging colorful small felt-fish and flying platypusses I think? Creatures with a duckbill, flaps and a tail.
April 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Spring is here in Austria.
Spring is here. Believe it or not! Here is a small flower blooming in a crevice of a moss covered tree stump above 1 m above ground. The leaves are bright green and the flowers a light rose. The background shows a still pretty leafless wood.
April 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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TL cleanse. Every day a picture from my travelling and hiking:
Picture from a grey basalt stone with 1.5m x 1m brass plate with the title "Arnold Schwarzenegger Wanderweg" Beneath the outline of a male profile. Inside a small enamel with a picture of Arnold as the Terminator in the 1980 movie. Above a smaller title stating "Filmstar". And yes, it's all very kitshy. Don't even get me started on the "boat of promise" on the same trail. Wih a giant photo of him and his now ex-wife from 2008. Because he broke the promise he made on that boat quite spectacularly. If I were her I would have made a giant bonfire out of that boat. Looks like Maria Shriver is a better person than me.
April 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Mother nature is spiky today. ( I hope it's not an omen)

Still, happy new year.
Bushes covered with spiky ice crystals.. Clos- up of wiremesh fence in front of a meadow. The fence is covered in spiky small icecrystals.
January 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Some Austrian houses with impressive Christmas display.

Ein paar österreichische Häuser, die es Weihnachtsmäßig krachen lassen.
Blue house with projected moving snowflakes. In fronzät about 20-30 lightsculptures. Think: christmad trees, reindeer sleigh, stars, gingerbreaden, snowmen. Mostly white/yellow light tho. With some green and red. Entrance to a yard in front if partly wooden house (top) with yellow light curtain. A white glowing reindeer family. A glowing iceman, some stars and some more small reindeer. Mostly white blue and yellow glowing in the dark scene.
December 29, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Merry Christmas, frohe Weihnachten!
Feuerzangenbowle mit brennenden Zuckerhut und 2 Kölner Weihnachtsmarktassen. Links: engel mit Clownsnase, rechts: 2 Engel in Rückenansicht vor Kölner Dom.
December 25, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Leutz, ich war bei meinem 1. Krampuslauf gestern in Gratwein-Gratkorn.

Das war so toll! Sogar mit heavy metall music. Wobei fraglich wäre ob @fischblog.bsky.social das "heavy" metal nennen würde. Man konnte noch Text und Melodie erkennen.

Bilder:
Stellt Euch die Unterseite eines Heissluftballons vor, der volle Kanne in deb Straßen feuert. Meterhohe weißblaue Feuerfontänen in der Einkaufsstraße vom Ort. Absperrungen mit Menschen (viele Kinder drumherum). Röhrte ganz schön. Vorne am Gefährt die Anschrift "Mastena's Daemonia". Selbe Einkaufsstraße. Schwarzpulverauch. Difuses rotes Licht von ner roten Flammenkerze weiter vorn. Ein bepelzter Teufel mit Hörnern und rausgestreckter Zunge posiert vor Zuschauern am Rand. Leuchtende Weihsnachtadecko hängt über dem Ganzen. Wolfsmensch der mit lächendeln Kindern vor uns posiert. Sieht scary aus. War aber ganz lieb.
December 6, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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War sehr schön gestern in Judendorf bei Graz.
Wolkenfreier Sonnenuntergang in der Marien Kirchberg-Kirche in Judendorf bei Graz. Alte Linde, Brunnen, links Pfarrhaus, rechts gotische Kirche mit filigrabnem Turm. Im Hintergrund: Voralpine Hügel in leichtem Abendust. Herbst. Baum ohne Blätter aber grüne Wiese.
November 11, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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#exoplanets5 Now complete with poster easter egg hunt. Can you find this poster w/o looking up its location? And even then. Good luck in hunting down the spot.

May the odds be ever in your favour!
June 18, 2024 at 7:33 AM
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So it begins.#exo5

Just arrived via nighttrain from Austria
June 16, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Balkon ist in voller Blüte. Schön ist's geworden. Auch der Schnittlauch blüht kräftig.
Balcony with blooming petunias, lavendel and clove. Red, yellow, violet, rose. Just nice! Even the chives are sprouting flowers.
June 14, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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And how was your weekend?

Austria sure is nice. This is Horn in Wood Quarter. And yes we had Mohnzuzler in Gars/Kamp. And wow, what a nice backery. The cakes are gorgeous.
Sunset view over one of Horn's (Austria) city lake. The lake is free for swimming. And I didn't know and did not pack my swimming suit. Hot damb!
June 10, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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Duftnelken, Hornveilchen und Lavendel auf dem Balkon.

Meine persönliche Duft und Farbtherapie. Unglaublich wie gut die Farben und Düfte tun.

Und insektenfreundlich ist es auch.
Balkonpflanzen: Lavendel mit lila Fatbknospen. Rot-gescheckte Duftnelke. Hornveilchen in gelb und Flieder.
May 7, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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Also this is #graz city. 5 mins later we were at the tramline 1 to drive back home with public transport.
View on Mariatrost church in Graz over meadow with wild flowers during sunset with a few fluffy rosetinged clouds above.
May 5, 2024 at 12:37 PM