Over the past week the weather's often been cool and rainy even though summer solstice was just a few days ago. But the days are long, the light is beautiful, and Petrin hill is still here for me to climb. On warm days I stop to sit on a bench and look down over the city:
I still take pictures of wildflowers on the hill -- this is a field scabious (Knautia arvensis):
But the full summer foliage makes it hard to take pictures of local birds. I did manage to capture this magpie on the gutter of the roof next door:
Among the sights on Petrin that I haven't posted pictures of yet is this tiny hutlike chapel:
And because of the rain, there are now lots of land snails on Petrin, making their slow steady progress:
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