Leon_Vienna's photos with the keyword: Strand

Main: Hooded Ladies' Tresses - Spiranthes romanzoffiana - Drehwurz PiP1: Kalm's St. Johns Wort - Hypericum kalmianum - Kalms Johanniskraut PiP2: Bladderwort - Urticularia sp. - Wasserschlauch PiP3: Mountain Deathcamas - Anticlea elegans - Zierliche Jochlilie

US westcoast relative -> www.ipernity.com/doc/1227338/50920494

Beach life on Manitoulin ...

Back to my my photo archive HDD - Canada 2007 series can go on. A closer look at the compact and leveled limestone on Manitoulin Island with its structural cracks and glacial scratches. Hard life there ... More about Alvars: english - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar deutsch - de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_(Landform) Two further sites about Canadian Alvars worth seeing, you'll find here - very nicely written and garnished with most beautiful images: - floraofohio.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-bruce-peninsula-part-vi-alvar.html (all seven parts about Bruce Peninsula are worth to look at - in my opinion ... and not even mentioning the rest of this interesting site) - www.meanderphotography.ca/Alvar

Evening mood at Lake Constance, Germany. Some days off - external HDD forgotten home, Canada of 2007 has to wait. One or another actuell Lake Constance image as comfort.

Alvar - leveled and massiv limestone, planed by ice age glacier. Non to little soil development during last few thousand years create an envirement for very specialized plant communities. Those stronger cracks have to do with the structure of the limestone, the finer scratches origin from glacial movements during the last ice age. More about Alvars: english - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar deutsch - de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_(Landform) Two further sites about Canadian Alvars worth seeing, you'll find here - very nicely written and garnished with most beautiful images: - floraofohio.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-bruce-peninsula-part-vi-alvar.html (all seven parts about Bruce Peninsula are worth to look at - in my opinion ... and not even mentioning the rest of this interesting site) - www.meanderphotography.ca/Alvar

Compact and leveled limestone bedrock creats a biological environment known as Alvar. According german wikipedia one more criterion shall be that the limestone rock was more or less planed by the ice of the ice age. Often scratches of those glacier works can be seen on the surface of the "pavement". More about Alvars: english - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar deutsch - de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_(Landform)

M'Chigeeng Marina, Manitoulin Island.