Anja Jessen

@anjajessen

European with Fernweh. Currently communing with olive trees in Puglia.

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Anja Jessen@anjajessen· 20d

This olive grower has given up the fight against the Xylella bacterium 🔥 #ThickTrunkTuesday #Puglia

A burnt out olive tree left a completely blackened shape like a modern sculpture standing upright. A few dead twigs behind it, signs of dousing the fire on the ground. Completely dried ground all around and a blindingly blue sky above. You can almost see the heat.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· Jul 15

Baby basil is where it’s at this week. 🦗 #invertebrates #Puglia #macro

A baby grasshopper - bright green, facing left - on basil shoots, also bright green. White window frame in the back.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· Jul 14

Not even sure this counts for #ThickTrunkTuesday? #Puglia #10minutesFromHome

View of a savannah with dried up grasses on the ground and thin pines scattered in the back. 3 of them in the middle ground are fanned from vertical on the right to leaning almost 45° on the left.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· Jul 12

Found out the dude was a dudette. And she left me with a bunch of babies who now live in my orchids. 💚 🦗 #invertebrates #Puglia #macro #MacroMonday

Close-up of a green baby grasshopper in a yellow, white and purple orchid blossom, in front of a white wall.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· Jun 30

Dreaming of holidays. ⛱️ #Puglia #AdventuresAwait

An old and super dirty, red caravan with yellow, ahem, racing stripes, seen side-on in a field of wild flowers, under a mainly blue sky. There are some wire thingies stacked in the roof and the door is open.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· Jun 26

Such a dude. #invertebrates #Puglia #macro 🦗

A huge grey-green grasshopper clinging to a wooden box seen side-on in all his alien glory.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· Jun 26

My favourite neighbour came back for a visit. #EgyptianBirdGrashopper #Invertebrates #Puglia #macro 👽

A big grasshopper clinging to a wooden box, seen face-on. It’s dark green and looks like an alien.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· Jun 26

They are fantastic. Little tricycle lorries made by, mostly, Fiat. They are called ape, which is Italian for bee. People use them in the vineyards and olive groves. If it weren’t so silly, I’d want one. This is an older version. #Ape #Puglia #DreamCar

A little tricycle lorry in racing green, in an olive grove. Seen 3/4 from the front.

A little tricycle lorry in racing green, in an olive grove. Seen side on

A little tricycle lorry in racing green, in an olive grove. Seen almost fully from the front.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· Jun 25

Parking lot. #AroundTheCorner (actually, from the chair in front of my door) #Ape #UrbanGaze #Puglia

A stone wall with a weird stair-like structure in the centre, a telly antenna at the top and a white drain pipe going down on the left. Bottom centre a tiny Italian agricultural tricycle lorry seen in silhouette. It’s dusk and a curlicued streetlight is on, casting yellow light contrasting with the Prussian blue of the sky.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· Jun 25

The neighbours having a chinwag. #Sunrise #UrbanGaze #Puglia

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· Jun 6

Dealing with ‘things’, so slowing down a bit here. But I still love you lot. And I got to go to the sea today 💙 #Puglia #BeachLife

View along some spiky beach plants towards the sea. A bright orange sunbrella with people around it in the distance. Blue sky at the top edge of the picture.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 26

Ah crap. Turns out I prefer the b/w version. 🍸🫒🕊️ #ThickTrunkTuesday #Puglia #Olive

A black and white shot of a burnt out olive tree with grasses at its base and, barely visible, a few small live twigs on the left in the back. A sunlit meadow behind it.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 26

Burn-out. 🍸🫒🕊️ #ThickTrunkTuesday #Puglia #Olive #NotDeadYetByALongShot

The burnt out trunk of an ancient olive tree, with a few live twigs seen in the back on the left. Through the gap and on the sides a meadow and the bright blue sky are visible.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 25

Alles goed. Working a lot. Drove to the sea on Saturday, against strong winds. Mamma mia, the pain I’m in now! Lessons are starting later today, so I just went and bought myself an outside chair. I love my bike 🤣 And you?

An orange plastic chair upside down on the back of a black bicycle, which is parked in front of a supermarket. Glass windows on the left, some parking and a trolley line in the back.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 24

Moon rise. #JustNow #AroundTheCorner #Puglia

A blacks and white shot of a slightly larger than half full moon in the setting sun. A few clouds in the sky. Seen over a stepped and speckled roof scape with an old tv antenna with a few cables leading left and right.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 24

Fireworks. #SundayYellow #Puglia

A spray of bright yellow fennel flowers, some in focus, others not, like little fireworks exploding from their stems. Remains of a tree and highly contrasting blue sky in the back.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 24

The only forest ‘close-by’ is 20km away. It has become a destination. 🌳🌲🌲🌳🌲 #StunDay #Puglia #Adriatico

View along a straight forest path bordered by the trunks of very tall pine trees. A little bit of blue sky visible above, speckled shade on the ground.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 18

It’s nice out. 🪲 #WildCarrots #10MinsFromHome 🌱

A cup-shaped cluster of tiny flowers, mostly white, but the outer petals a soft pink. A black beetle crawling on the left edge. Other plants all around, a grey wall barely visible in the back. Bright sunshine.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 18

Going shopping 🛒 #BlueskyMonday #Puglia ⛱️🌲

1/4 of the pic a field of some grain, a medium green. A row of umbrella pines, a cube of a building and some other trees on the horizon. The other 3/4 are just blindingly blue sky.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 16

Chores and errands are done. It’s raining. Nothing to do but read a good book. Oh, the pain! #Weekend

A Lewisia plant with dark green leaves coming out of the centre and orangeish pink flowers, in a barely visible terracotta pot on greyish beige pavement, seen from almost directly above. Everything is covered in rain drops.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 15

I mean, just look at it! 💙 #Scape #Puglia #AroundTheCorner

Blue sky above dilapidated beige stone buildings. A couple of cables running across. But the top 2/3 are just an incredible, cloudless blue.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 15

Done. 🌾 #Scape #harvest #Puglia

Round bales of hay in a field, seen side on. A line of trees on the horizon, blue sky above.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 14

So sieht das bei mir aus?

Screen shot of a part of Sabine’s OP which is illegible because of text overlap.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 12

Add some height to your garden 🌱 #ThickTrunkTuesday #UmbrellaPine #Puglia

View of a garden with grassy ground cover, green leaf bushes left and right, a chest-high tree stump and a beautiful umbrella pine in the back towering over everything. Blue sky with scattered clouds in the back.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 11

#VroomVroom Found in front of my supermarket. No, not AI, this is portrait mode. And the exquisite restauration efforts by a neighbour. #BlueskyMonday (just) #Fiat600

A tiny bronze coloured, very old (rounded edges everywhere) but exquisitely restore var parked on a street. It reflects the bright sun. A wall with hedge on the left, grass in front of it, houses and a small corner of bright blue sky behind.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 8

A #WallScape for #scape day. Old motif, but new(-ish) picture. Honest. #CaixaForum #Madrid

View up a house wall which has been completely (and fully intentionally) covered by plants of different species, leaf structures and shades of green.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 7

Rome does doors quite well. #ADoorableThursday #Thursgate #Pantheon #Roma

A very tall, bronze double door with classical details in an even higher beige stone wall, also with lots of carvings. There are commemorative plaques left and right and classical pillars imagined as reliefs. Just impressive.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 6

Outlook. #WednesdayWindows #Puglia

A carved stone window frame without a window in it. On the right a drain pipe which must leak, because plants are growing out of the stone and algae cover that part of the wall. Overall impression is of shabby chic. Maybe too shabby, even.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 5

Surviving. 🍸🫒🕊️🌳🌱 #ThickTrunkTuesday #Olive #Puglia

A black and white shot of the trunk of a very, very old olive tree. So old that its centre was hollowed out and split open so you can see the inside. Only a very few thin twigs have survived to grow out of the remainder of a branch on the left. It stands in a meadow of long grasses, a dry stone wall is just visible bottom left.

Anja Jessen@anjajessen· May 4

How’s this for a hotel? 😍 #ChiostroDeiDomenicani #Puglia #BlueskyMonday