This week we’re suggesting that in addition to our challenge, you explore and link to some of the other creative opportunities our friends and fellow challengers make available in the WP blogosphere (or any other sites where you post images). I’ve opened with a flower from my garden, and I’m linking to Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge.
Callistemon is one of my favourites, and as I finally got a glass house, I can now keep this plant safe all year around. It is a wonder to see its very special flowers unfold every year.
Maybe my Bottlebrush also would qualify for Jez Braithwhite’s Tropical plants in his Photo’s by Jez, Fan of… but this Bromelia I caught from the top of a Kapok tree in its true home, the Amazon, Ecuador.
Finally, I chose an image for Weekend Sky – Blog of Hammad Rais. The deceivingly soft light of a very cold winter evening. The low sun at its highest, you will find in the light blue opener with our neighbouring farm huse.
Please be sure to include the Lens-Artists tag with your responses, and to link to Tina’s original post as well as any other challenges you elected to feature. I’ll close with a sincere thank you to all who
shared your wonderful images and stories in last week’s 2021 favorites challenge. Your joy and positivity brightened our days. Stay tuned for next week’s challenge, hosted by Patti. Until then, stay safe and be kind.
Leya 
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how nice to have a glass house- and oh the beauty it must hold
It does, I am very grateful! Right now the acacia is in flower – a shower of little soft yellow balls.
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Some lovely choices for double dipping, Ann-Christine. I especially like the bottlebrush flower.
Thanks, Sue – it is indeed very special and different.
Lovely images, Leya. You are an amazing artist.
Thank you kindly, Marsha, I do believe we all are – but maybe not at the same things or in the same way. That is a comfort when I feel low and useless. We are all good at something!
Yes, and we all feel low and useless sometimes, too. It’s good to have some super skills to remember that we have when we are glum. 🙂
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Your photos, as always, are lovely. And the first one has my heart. Go glad you have a glass house now so you can enjoy this lovely flower any time.
Thank you for a lovely comment! Right now, when I open the doors to the glass house, the air is filled with a lovely scent – the acacia is spreading her golden flowers!
Beautiful images Ann-Christine and the callistemon looks glorious ❤
Thank you!
What a gorgeous Callistemon flower. I’ve never seen one before. Thank you for the introduction.
I never get to see snow here in Florida. Your photograph is a reminder of how harsh it can be
yet beautiful too. Lovely choices, Anne-Christine. Stay safe …. Isadora 😎
Thank you for a lovely comment, Isadora! Take care.
Just beautiful!
Thank you, Rupali.
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Such beautiful colours in that photo of the bottlebrush: deep reds and greens! And the winter light at your latitude is also another lovely sight
Happy to share, thank you.
I love that flower, AC! Just gorgeous. It must make you so happy to ”visit” it in your beautiful glass house. I hope you’re warm and cozy in the cold! Yesterday it was minus 22 C in Boston!! I lasted 1 hour for my walk. Rich started to run and had to turn back. The wind was fierce, too. Today, it’s a little warmer. Have a good one!
Thank you, Patti! Minus 22 – you’d better start running! Good you lasted for a whole hour.
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Lovely photos – the winter photo is beautiful
Glad you liked them, Nora – winter is.
Lovely illustrations of double dipping, A C
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A beautiful image of the Bottlebrush Leya, and they grow like weeds over here…
Thank you – and I know they do. They kindled this love anew when I was in New Zealand.
Lovely especially your winter scene
Thank you – I like the cold colours combined with the warm ones.
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I’m so delighted that you can grow bottle brush flowers there. I adore them, because they are so different. 😀 😀 Great post my friend 😀
♥ Thank you, sweet Cee! Let’s hope it will survive this winter too!
Wow. Simply BEAUTIFUL!
Thank you, John!
The opening macro stopped me in my tracks. 🙂
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That last photo made me shiver but it is SO beautiful – what wonderful light!
Thank you – light is everything, isn’t it!
Simply beautiful!
Thank you, Sofia.
That last photo has a mystical quality 😲
…..it has….deceivingly warm and cozy…
That’s possibly the best shot I’ve ever seen of the bottlebrush, Ann-Christine, and your winter scene is divine.
Thank you, Jo – so glad you loved the bottlebrush! It’s such a special flower. And special to me, as I first saw it in the Himalayas, brought one home – but it died, then fell in love again in New Zealand, had some lovely plants here that died every time I tried. And now – alive in my glasshouse!!!
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Well, I’m certainly a ‘fan of’ this post!
♥ Thank you, Margaret!
Love the tropical plant
Thank you – it is very special, I once had one at home.
The flower in your second picture is so beautiful, Ann-Christine! I see why it’s one of your favorites.
Thank you – yes, I hope to see it in flower this year as well!
Lovely as always Ann-Christine, but I especially loved the soft light you captured in your final image. Magical
Thank you, Tina. Deceptively warm.
Great selections for a bit of double dipping Ann-Christine 🙂 🙂
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I have never seen the red dirt of inland Australia – except on TV. I bet it is beautiful.