Admiring the early morning flowers
Admiring the early morning flowers in our garden: A photo gallery.
Vast fields of flowers in the Postberg Reserve in the West Coast National Park
The end of winter and the start of spring marks one of my favourite times of the year: it is flower season in the Western Cape, the Namaqualand and the Northern Cape. Mother Earth responds to good winter rains by carpeting vast areas of the countryside in bright, cheerful colours. Like this:
The heart of a flower
Until last week, there was a small plant in our back garden that looked like a bunch of weeds I’d forgotten to pull up…. I’m so glad I didn’t, because it suddenly sprouted forth the most amazingly radiant golden-yellow flowers, which have completely transformed that corner of our garden. Look here! And every evening, when…
A flowery interlude
On Friday and Saturday last week, while Richard and the guys were feverishly working away, trying to complete all the preparations for the imminent departure of two of the KAT containers from the SAAO, I pottered around with my camera, taking piccies of the pretty flowers. This is a view of the M5 highway, visible…
A roadside meadow of wild flowers
Last Sunday, hubby and I went for a walk around the neighbourhood, when we suddenly came to a vast field of wild flowers opposite our train station. A carpet of predominantly white daisies lay spread out in the gentle afternoon light, with the heart centre of each blossom turned towards the sun. While I was…
The flowers of Clanwilliam
After reading Amy-Lynn’s post called “The Simplicity of Daisies” over at her blog, I remembered that we had driven up to Clanwilliam last year in August, and that I had taken a pile of photos of the beautiful flowers that we saw there. I’d planned to write a blog post about it, but hadn’t gotten…
Grains of Sand 
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