CCS Contest session: Beauty of Nature around you - Sardinia

Hello everybody with this post I wish to enter the contest by @visionaer3003

So I want to show you the nature near to my home. I come here every day with my dog.

It is a little hill, when you arrive at the top, in the distance you can see the Marganai massif, with a height of about 900 meters. We are located in southern Sardinia, Italy, precisely in a region called Sulcis Iglesiente.

We are about 15 km from the sea, and that is the view of the typical Mediterranean maquis, formed mostly by bushes and shrubs.

I follow a path that winds up the small hill. As you go up you can see behind you part of the town: Iglesias.

These days the temperature starts to rise, soon flowers will bloom, but spring will not last long and with the temperatures rise the grass will become completely dries up. While the bushes and trees are evergreen, the land will be barren.

Just a few shy little flowers among the bushes:

Here you can see some typical plants, such as the lentisk:

The plant is used to make an oil, useful for massage and pain relief. Here, years ago was used for cooking, before olive oil considered more valuable, spread in the Italian cuisine:

Typical of the Mediterranean is the myrtle, an aromatic plant, here still without berries and yellowed by the sun. The plant it gives its best in winter with the berry picking in December. In Sardinia is very common the production of the Myrtle Liquor:

A well-known plant is asparagus. Soon the new asparagus will grow, very tender, which are easily cut with the hands and use to make fritters, risotto or pasta:

Other common plant, is the asphodel, now still green, will give origin to long stems with small white flowers that I hope to show you in a few weeks. We do not eat this one :)

Jack is checking out what he thinks is all of his territory!

In late spring, togheter with flowers, ticks will appear. So I'll have to put the insecticide on the dog and sprinkle my shoes and most of the pants with a repellent. This is to say that nature is beautiful but hides its small and big pitfalls :)

By the way, this is generally a safe place, it is very close to the town and some people come here to have a walk.

Wild boars can be found in the distance, but they never come closer. Sometimes you can see the holes they leave in the ground as they dig for food.

There are also some small snakes, but they are not dangerous.

That's all, I hope you like this description.

I took pictures with my LG smartphone.

Have a nice day!