Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

21 oktober, 201821 oktober, 2018 / Leya / 2 kommentarer

Thank you, Cee, for making flowers even more attractive and brightening our day!

In My Garden Today

12 oktober, 2018 / Leya / 29 kommentarer

So, I finally decided to try macro. A walk in the garden and a first try.

Fading summer flowers

Becoming a tomato

Curling up for the night

Thursday Thoughts – Indian Summer

11 oktober, 201810 oktober, 2018 / Leya / 22 kommentarer

Yesterday was the start of the Indian summer here in Skåne (Scania). We had 20 degrees C, sunny and no wind – a wonderful day.

The bees have had a tough summer this year, but now they seem to pop up from nowhere, buzzing gently to each other over my garden’s last flowers.

It is a joy watching them – more difficult to catch them on a photo though…

Later in the evening I went out again to enjoy the last of the autumn sun.

My lavender flowers are long since gone, but bowing their neat capsules in the fading light. I am grateful for a glorious Indian summer day – they say we will get at least another four of them this week.

CFFC: Pastel Colours

25 september, 2018 / Leya / 20 kommentarer

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pastel Colors

Pastel? I did not know I had any possible photos here…

…but I found some summer flowers

a fancy dress

a Moroccan yarn dying and drying

and my frozen beauties!

Wordless Wednesday

19 september, 201819 september, 2018 / Leya / 12 kommentarer

Wordless Wednesday

12 september, 2018 / Leya / 10 kommentarer

Wordless Wednesday

5 september, 2018 / Leya / 26 kommentarer

CFFC: Lime or Light Green

4 september, 2018 / Leya / 16 kommentarer

For Cee tonight – early morning and forest light.

It is the light that makes the subtle light shine…

Amazon Lily

3 september, 2018 / Leya / 14 kommentarer

This year my Amazon lily has got 6 stems with 5-7 flowers on each one of them.

I fell in love with this flower at first sight – when I was in my twenties.

I bought a bulb in the 1980’s when we had a very good plant shop in the nearest town – where I worked then.

I have always loved flowers, and very seldom fail with new ones – I am always well prepared. But the Amazon lily – no. The first bulb did not ever come up above the soil.

The second one did. But only never to set flowers. Then I got an upcoming pot plant from an old collegue of mine. Or in fact, from his wife. He grows orchids and she loves plants too –

On their porch she had 5-6 Amazon plants – and she gave away one of them to me. With a piece of good advice…

Let them stand outdoors during summer – and they will shoot flowers.

They did, already the first year.

Now they stand out there from May to September – and they grow marvelously beautiful flowers – with scent like a dream.

They stand below the grapes – getting ready now to eat. They really match – the grapes and the Amazon lily. In outdoors beauty. And eating – with eyes as well.