Nature tells tales: it is not fiction, it's Nature
Nature tells tales: it is not fiction, it's Nature

Nature tells tales: it is not fiction, it's Nature

Rocks, plants, animals, landscape contain stories


Urban Hiking - Castelvetro di Modena by night

17 Feb 2021 1 minute read 7 comments lemming

Castelvetro di Modena is a small town perched on top of a hill in the Province of Modena. Probably it took origin from an old Roman camp. To walk along the streets of the old town centre is very suggestive, especially at night when there are not so m...

River hiking - Canale Naviglio (Northern Italy)

15 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming

Some days ago I passed in Bastiglia, a small town some km north of the city of Modena and I took the opportunity to have a quick walk along the Canale Naviglio (Naviglio channel). The Naviglio is a large channel that brings water from the city of Mo...

River hiking - River Panaro (Northern Italy) - part five (A plain view)

12 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments lemming

The appearance of a river changes by passing from the mountain to the plain in a manner that it can be very difficult to recognize what we had used to see.   Approximately at the height of the city of Modena, the Panaro river stops having a very wid...

Countryside hiking (episode 12 - On the hillside)

10 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments lemming

Some days ago I had to wait for a person. It was late in the morning, the sky was not clear and the light of the day was fading down. But I had a temptation in front of me. It was the hillside where I was used to hiking with my cousins when I was a...

Torrente Guerro (Northern Italy) - A night vision

5 Feb 2021 1 minute read 4 comments lemming

Torrente Guerro is one of the longest tributaries of River Panaro: https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-fiction-its-nature/river-hiking-river-panaro-northern-italy-xroelyr https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-ficti...

Winter?

1 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments lemming

Today it is February the 1st. It is winter. In my garden and not only in mine primroses seem to ignore that we are in winter. It almost from December that I find blooming primroses. My be none have informed the flowers that it is not the right season...

Urban Hiking - Episode four - The old town walls park

28 Jan 2021 1 minute read 7 comments lemming

I have already shown the castle here https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-fiction-its-nature/urban-hiking-from-the-river-to-the-castle-xllpgwn and the inner old town here https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-fictio...

Looking at the mountains from afar

26 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming

I was driving: my attention was suddenly kept by the vision of the Monte Cimone white of snow.  Unfortunately, I couldn't stop the car to take a photo. Overall the view was the rest of the skyline was not the best with building and road panels either...

Urban Hiking-Episode three (Walking and climbing in the park)

20 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming

Urban hiking is not only to walk along streets and avenues or under arcades, but it is also to go to shopping centers and public buildings and to also go walking in the parks. Generally in the park, we can walk if they are plain, but if they are uphi...

River hiking - River Panaro (Northern Italy) - part four (the riverbed near the town of Marano)

8 Jan 2021 1 minute read 4 comments lemming

I accompanied a person to a medical examination in the town of Marano and I had to wait for over an hour, so I took that time as an opportunity to make river hiking even though I wasn't well equipped (no boots), the weather was a bit cold, it was lat...