Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Orange

 

Orange is beautiful and oranges are tasty. My choices for this challenge are some of my favourite oranges…

New life and new lives

Omplantering som alltid vecka 8. I år blev jag tvungen att ta ner den ena av de stora monsterorna – den hade blivit alltför hög och ohanterlig. En gång tidigare har jag tagit ner båda två. Båda togs som sticklingar för ca 38 år sedan. Då stod de på min gamla arbetsplats i en stor samplantering.Nu finns inte min gamla arbetsplats längre. Eftersom jag träffade några av mina gamla arbetskamrater i helgen tog jag med stambitar med vidhängande blad till dem alla – ett levande minne av svunna tider.

I övrigt några av de orkideer som blommar just nu – och förstås min ryska begonia…

As usual my pot plants get some new soil and some grooming this week in February. But, this year I had to take down one of the big Monstera Deliciosas – it had grown to the ceiling. This weekend I happened to have dinner with some of my old friends who worked together a long time ago in the same building (it does not exist any more) where I got those Monsteras as cuttings, some 38 years ago…So, now I decided to divide my Monstera into big enough pieces to plant, and then hand them out to my friends. A living memory from days gone by.

Of course I have to show some of the orchids starting now – mostly phalaenopsis. In some weeks there will hopefully be more of them – two cattleyas are budding and more phalaenopsis.

Travel theme: Romance

I searched my house for Romance – I didn’t have to travel far away…

And here it is…

…the road to my Heart

Happy Valentine’s Day!

My rays of light!

As I suffer severely from the darkness, the loss of daylight and the constant grey drizzle this winter, I decided to make a post of the short rays of light on the latest days’ walks. Maybe there are more of us who need some light – I hope you will enjoy them!

Suddenly there was a short glimpse of sunlight on these beautiful straws, resting by my path in the soft wind.

This broken twig, and its bright lichen, caught my eye inside the forest. Hit by a tiny ray,  it lay glowing on the dark ground.

A dark green candle provides the soft light of my evenings.

This years’ fiery Christmas flower in my home is a colourful Hippeastrum called ”La Paz”.

May the light be with you all!

Puerto Mogan

So I returned to this Island In the Sun after 15 years. Once visited when the children were small – now back for almost only one reason – Puerto Mogan. I hope you understand why.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers

The word Layers is a very useful word, so many interpretations are possible here. I picked what first came to mind: Flowers and stone.

 096Ranunculus is a wonderful species,  to which also ordinary buttercups belong. But this one, above, is one of the most beautiful specimens I have put in a vase on my table. Its delicate layers in yellow and orange nuances speaks to my senses as few others do.

 2013 446In the mountains you sometimes come across beautiful coloured layers created thousands of years ago. And if you get the chance to get a close-up, they can seem almost like a rainbow.

 2013 455See more Layers of beauty here.

Travel theme: Delicate

So, I’m late, but Ailsa’s Delicate maybe is not too late! And, the flowers in my garden – for them, resting and waiting is a delicate matter…

Höst i trädgården 045Cranesbill

Solig höstsöndag 2011 093Spindle tree

Mera trädgård hösten 2012 012Hydrangea

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

In every respect, these photos are the closest I get in representing The Hue of Me. Colour, motif, light, time of the day. They also represent my greatest Love – Nature.

Sommarkväll juli 2013 029

Magle och Hovdalahöst 058

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Brown and Sepia Tones

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