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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social

We’ve come to an Airbnb in the Dolomites and I feel like I’m in a car advert

A small electric blue Citroen parked on a patch of grass. Behind it, some very dramatic and attractive mountains framed by trees in the foreground.
sep 1, 2025, 3:48 pm • 64 1

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Disco Sausage @fishybob.bsky.social

Amazing!

sep 1, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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Some Bloke in a Hat @someblokeinahat.bsky.social

I nearly had a Triumph Dolomite once. £600.

sep 1, 2025, 4:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social

Phwoar

A screenshot from the Merlin birdsong app. It heard (as did we) spotted nutcracker, commonest chaffinch and black woodpecker.
sep 1, 2025, 4:09 pm • 37 0 • view
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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social

phwoar indeed *casually* did you have an owl perch on your garden furniture tho?

sep 1, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social

Well no, but we’ve only been here three hours

sep 1, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social

Nice owl though. Also excellent hand-feeding work.

sep 1, 2025, 7:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social

I'm trying it every day until I'm covered in friendly birds like Snow White. Prob be able to talk to them soon.

sep 1, 2025, 7:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social

Moody valley

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sep 2, 2025, 3:41 pm • 16 0 • view
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social

We were pleased to see this, but perhaps not as pleased as it was to see us.

A wild mushroom growing from the forest floor. It has a distinctly phallic appearance.
sep 2, 2025, 4:01 pm • 69 5 • view
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John Rayment @johncrayment.bsky.social

Not mushroom for ambiguity there.

sep 2, 2025, 5:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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Dr. Uncle Beard 🦊 🌈 @unclebeard1978.bsky.social

Looks like a fungi to me.

sep 2, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social

Good morning from Misery Valley, where a Black Woodpecker has just frolicked for my pleasure on a tree trunk just out of shot.

A valley in the Dolomites. Trees. Sun. Mist. The whole and absolute delight.
sep 3, 2025, 7:32 am • 39 0 • view
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social

When Slartibartfast designed the Dolomites you imagine he just handed in his work and the editor gave it a glance before sending it back with a couple of minor edits and an approving “cracking stuff, this, Slarti. Keep it up.”

A valley with trees in front and mountains behind and the kind of light, approaching sunset, that inspires spontaneous and ill-advised proposals. A mountain ridge silhouetted against blue sky. Chalet in the foreground right. Trees, beauty, fresh clean air. More ridiculously beautiful mountains, this time framed by a pine in the foreground left and a bit of another pine on the right. I hardly need describe this, so I? Glorious mountains, blue sky, trees and so forth.
sep 3, 2025, 4:36 pm • 32 0 • view
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AndyInBrum @andyinbrum.bsky.social

Thoughts and prayers for you in this difficult time

sep 3, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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LucieMR @luciemr.bsky.social

Or, "not quite up to the standard of your fjords"..

sep 3, 2025, 5:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 📎 @clairecopperman.bsky.social

Not as many crinkly bits here.

sep 3, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Angela @angelt.bsky.social

Childish I know but 😂😂😂

sep 2, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sasseymills @sasseymills.bsky.social

The Black Woodpecker looks like the Pileated Woodpecker’s arch nemesis !

sep 1, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social

Very much cut from the same cloth!

sep 1, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social

I *actually* thought this was a car advert, Lev.

sep 1, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 0 • view