

AUGUST
VITALITY
📍Paneriai erosive ridge landscape reserve, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Vitality is based how plants not occupy places of their own, but are their own places." — Edward S. Casey
Choosing a theme for observations in July is overwhelming. Opportunities for exploration are on every corner. Where to focus?
“There’s one incredible umbellifer,” said Radvilė. “And since we are nearby, let’s go check it out. I've met them few years ago.
We are at Paneriai Erosive Ridge Landscape Reserve, another great forest in Vilnius.
Can you notice that little path on the right up the hill? ↑ That's a path, one of its kind!
First steps and we met Seseli annuum, rare or vulnerable due to habitat loss and changes in land use.

Plants can themselves be places, habitats for the others. Flower crab spider (Misumena vatia) has the ability to change between colors based on their surroundings.
Bluish-green feathery leaves.
Further up the hill...

One of the nice things about plant life is that it tends to stay in one place. Yet to be sessile is not to be fixed in place, is to be active in place and with place, activate place itself. To perform a place, to bring new forms into being.
Here's a little stop. So here's the plant Radvilė said we should go for ↓







Silphiodaucus prutenicus






Next to it, on the same hill, there are >10 Platanthera orchids cooking seeds.

Deciduous forest, oaks, maples, hazels...
