Natural History Museum of Maastricht

Last Sunday we visited the Natural History Museum of Maastricht
(Wikipedia also in english available here)

What an impressive entrance!!! The work of artist Han van Wetering

kenderman's favourite of the day : a fern fossil...

Mosasaurus of Maastricht

as long as I remember my family searched and found lots of small shark teeth fossils

one of my favourites of the day... the Lynx

 Not for the faint-hearted!

And don't get me wrong... I do prefer living animals

but I'm fascinated by the mummies...

Another piece of art by nature...

and some bugs...

What a magnificent room!!! Windows surround us...
I could live here happily ever after (big smile)

Sea Holly

When you walk across the dunes you might come across

Eryngium maritimum (aka sea holly and seaside eryngo).

It's an endangered species so please don't take any plants or even seeds with you.

I really like this beautiful architectural thistle!

Wow! I had never seen this large insect before. It's a great golden sand digger

Life can be translucent

young female Banded darter dragonfly (Bandheidelibel) in our garden

I'm so sorry for my absence!

Perhaps you remember my mother had a severe operation at the end of March.
(you can read my earlier posts here, here, here and here)

She slowly recovered afterwards but she didn't recover completely.

Now new scans confirm she's terminally ill and she's fighting a lost battle.

Her condition is getting worse and life threatening really quickly.

We'll be spending as much time as we can with her.
So please hang in there with me...

Nectar Bar

the nectar bar is working overtime!

Pyjama Party

Our Angelica was crowded with Striped shield bug

(pyjama bug in Dutch: pyama wants/kever)

Zing!

The last couple of days we have been working in the garden.

Accompanied by Mobli ☆

Spring has finally arrived!

Stoechas

Agastache

Camo

This buff-tip moth is incredible with his camouflage. I'm impressed!

But he would better pick a birch or branch to rest instead of this blue stone :)

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