Flowers

In My Garden Today

/ 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

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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

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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!

 

 

Amazon Lily

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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.

 

 

On Leaving Summer

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As we leave summer behind and enter Autumn, I want to express my gratefulness to the Swedish summer I experienced in Abisko.

Abisko och Lofoten 2018 1010-Redigera

Abisko is forever connected to my first hike on the King’s Trail when I was young

But now it will also be remembered for giving us the only real Swedish summer in 2018

For its lushness, colours and Linneas – and for the only raindrops for three months.

No one can deny the beauty of the mountain forest and its shy inhabitants…

…hiding their freshness in the cool air –

…and  silently showing off their finery –

But Autumn is here now – hopefully with more colourful strokes from Nature’s palette

Thank you – Abisko – I am forever grateful!