Wanted: Looking for a mate!
Our pawpaw tree placed an advert: Wanted: Virile male with healthy genes (non-GM), willing to provide seed material for breeding purposes.
Admiring the early morning flowers
Admiring the early morning flowers in our garden: A photo gallery.
Flowering fynbos, veggie patches and quaint cottage gardens: The Rotary Anns’ annual Spring Garden Day in Pinelands
Once a year in springtime, five brave residents of Pinelands generously open their gardens to crowds of curious visitors, as part of a fund-raising event organised by the Rotary Anns of Pinelands. Since moving to Pinelands about eight years ago, we have attended several of these Spring Garden Days, and they have always been most enjoyable and inspirational
Roaming around the garden with my camera: A longer slideshow
And for those who have problems seeing the slideshows, here is a gallery too:
A harvest of sweet Cape gooseberries and fiery chilli peppers: A little slideshow
And for those who have problems seeing the slideshows, here is a gallery too:
Finding Inner Peace and Tranquility at Bodhi Khaya Retreat Centre
As mentioned in an earlier post, hubby and I attended a meditation retreat at the beautiful and supremely peaceful Bodhi Khaya Retreat Centre outside the village of Stanford in the Overberg. During our 9-day retreat in early November, I took hundreds of photos. That place really is a paradise for a wannabe photographer! Unfortunately, I…
Pollen season – and beautiful pigeons on the recently mown grass verges
Haa-a-a-a-a-tchoooo!!!! Every year during springtime, there is a conflict between the local residents of Pinelands who want to keep the beautiful wild spring flowers on the grass verges flowering in our neighbourhood for as long as possible, and who thus get mightily upset with the city council when their squadrons of mowers come roaring down…
A Sunflower from Eseltjiesrus is surviving winter in Cape Town
When we visited Eseltjiesrus Donkey Sanctuary during a whirlwind week in February this year, to introduce our respective moms to our adopted Donkey, we saw that all the sunflowers outside the cute little shop were in full bloom. We picked up a couple of seeds and, on our return home, planted them in a flower-pot.…
Spring is definitely springing!
You may remember that, a month ago, our Rhus tree in the back garden was pruned very heavily. We’d been keeping a watchful eye out for new shoots, but nothing seemed to be happening, and I was starting to wonder whether we might perhaps have killed it. However, a few days ago, pretty much on…
Our tree has been pruned again
We have a large and well-established Rhus tree in our back garden. Since we moved in a couple of years ago, we’ve had it pruned twice already. Each time, we feared that the pruning had been so severe that our poor tree would take years to recover. And each time, it astounded us by sending…
The strelitzias are flowering!
A couple of years ago, a friend gave us a Strelitzia reginae to celebrate our move from an apartment to a quaint little cottage with garden. I also thought it quite cute and clever that this particular species carries my name, in Latin format. 🙂 It is an indigenous plant, well adapted to the growing…
“Poor plant”: The sad tale of my African violet
“Poor plant,” declared hubby, when he saw this picture. African violets are among the toughest of houseplants you can get. They don’t need a lot of water, they prefer very little direct sunlight, and they are very easy to propagate: you basically stick a leaf in some potting soil and wait for it to take…
And kaleidoscope fun with a hibiscus blossom
For this third set of kaleidoscope images, I used this simple hibiscus blossom as the basis. I find these images absolutely extraordinary. By tweaking seven parameters (horizontal offset, vertical offset, rotation angle, scale factor, number of petals, number of orbits, and the strangely named radial suction), I can basically tell the computer which areas of…
Kaleidoscope fun with a pink lobelia
This is a pretty pink lobelia. And these are some of the amazing kaleidoscope images you can get by playing around with image processing software:
Kaleidoscope fun with a gazania
This is an orange gazania. And this is what happens when you play around with the kaleidoscope function on the image processing software. Awesome, isn’t it?
Grains of Sand 
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