TODAY'S FLOWERS - Tonight's Flowers Really!

'Joiks', I though.

I have no flowers to post . . .

grab camera, rush out into the dark with torch

and violà!

A flower I had noticed on a seedling geranium a few days ago.

Dah, when you shine the torch on the flower, you can't see

what setting the camera in on, ups . . .

soft focus by torchlight.

Madly winding fading torch and clinging on to camera,

my piece de resistance, a flower engulfed by grass.

Yep, not only has my weeding not been done, 

it hasn't even been started

here is the little darling in all it's moth eaten glory

and, the only other thing apart from my white rose that is in 

flower, ONE shy but perfumed violet.

With Lille Abner's grandma I say "when you got 'em, flaunt 'em!"

When you don't have much, it's best to enjoy what you DO have.

TODAY'S FLOWERS - Flowers from a bare Garden

After the long, hot summer without water for the garden except

what I saved from the shower and sink,

this is all there is to see

some weeds in the grass we sometimes laughingly

call a lawn

out of 150 bushes, one single, hardy groud-cover rose

this delicate looking but hardy daisy like perennial.

(the name escapes me for the moment)

and lastly, one single geranium flower.

Not much to show for a once showcase, large garden.

I just hope others have more than I.

TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ Sharp and Dreamy

Hallo my friends, I do hope you will comment if briefly, I

will do my best to reciprocate and certainly visit but, for a

while commenting will literally be a pain since some unknown

thing has happened to one of my vertebra which inhibits typing.

Please don't leave me to languish in interpixie darkness.

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Some things in life are sharp as a tack, like this beautiful

double Hibiscus found in a Tumby Bay garden.

Others are soft and dreamy and lead to introspection, like this

humble geranium transformed by light into the guise of a peony.

Both are equally valid and necessary for a balance life.

They also both enlarge for your convenience.

Do join TODAY'S FLOWERS so we have more wonders to admire,

just click on the Logo and you are there.

TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ Christmas Colour

To all of you out there in blogland, a

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

may you all stay safe this holiday season!

Red geraniums in the sunlight this morning in my garden.

With the light shining through them there is even a Christmas

star shining through.

Thank you Luiz for steering us along a flower strewn path for

another year. It has been a very pleasant journey.

Nature Notes ~ A Lucky Break

Everyone needs a holiday sometime, we took ours on Tuesday,

a whole 26 hours worth! I craved the ocean so we stayed in

Goolwa, at the end of the Murray river and just a spit from the

sea.

Coming home the next day, the skies darkened and I just got

under cover from opening and shutting the gate to keep the

sheep from our garden, when the light diminished and the

storm broke. Our first day of summer and a most unseasonal

thunderstorm with high humidity although it was coming from

the cold southern ocean that usually sends us blasts from

Antarctica.

All our gutters overflowed along their whole length, splashing

down on the flowerbed and forming muddy puddles on the path

that is supposed to keep our feet dry. 30.7mm in less than an

hour!

Drenched geranium overhanging the Mediterranean sea on

the path.

Greens sprang into life as plants soaked up the bounty and

nourishment descending from heaven above.

An added bonus of a little piece of a double rainbow as the

sun dared to show its face again.

Do click on the Logo at right and tell us of the changes in

your own surroundings.

Thanks to Michelle of Rambling Woods, we can all join in.

TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ Transitions

Winter is here, the leaves have fallen and glow yet on the ground.
Some roses still have a few flowers, 'Bonica' has blushed a darker
pink in the cold weather.

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The first Hyacinth bravely pops her head up to share her scent.

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The purple leafed Geranium, though drenched with rain, is a

welcome touch of colour. The garden may not have a riot of

blooms at this season but there are always enough to be found

for a posy.
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Thanks to all the kind people on the Flower Team who care for

and co-ordinate this meme.

TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ Me and my Shadow

A simple Geranium casting its soul on the pavement.

Click on the Logo to visit a world of flowers.

A big thank you to Luiz Santilli Jr. for dreaming up this beautiful

meme, and to his great helpers for keeping it going.

TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ 24 Flowers in a Bare Winter Garden

Mid-winter and the nights are full of frost
but after years of drought and now a little rain,
it seems not all is lost.



I went out to the garden, to see what I cloud see
I spied a little Almond bud upon an Almond tree




and Crabapples were blooming though winter cold is here




a Pansy and a Hyacinth,





a little Rosebud dear

some Cyclamen

and Snowflakes

Geranium as well

and in the shadehouse corner a Jacob's Ladder fell
like pearls strung on a necklace with tiny flowers strewn

that mingled their sweet perfume

with that of grass new mown

Just when I thought how wonderful

the presents it bestowed

a lone Anemone smiled up

nodded its head and shyly bowed

Precursors of the Spring to come
the welling tide they promise,
but just for now I am content
with what the heav'ns to me have sent.

Click on the red Rose Logo for a world of flowers.

A hug to my friend Luiz Santilli Jr. and the Team he has

enlisted to to give us this joy of sharing flowers.

TODAY'S FLOWERS 21 Mid-Winter Flowers

It is mid-winter here and to have anything flowering
in the garden is a gift from heaven.



A self-seeded Primula in a hanging basket.



My burgundy leaved Geranium flowers all year round.



A clump of the earliest of Jonquills in the overflow dithch
of the dam, planted abour 13 years ago. Please enlarge.

Forgive me for not visiting this week, see post below, I
will do my best on our return.

Thank you Luiz my friend and all helpers for this meme.