.....but going...

...going...

...going...

....gone... as far as it is going.....this time.

Give it a month and the monster will be covered in leaves again and sprouting to the skies, but at least for the rest of the winter we shall have some sun hitting that end of the house and balcony.

Here today....

More Coffee Art

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New Year's Day

It was a beautiful this New Year's morning, paracetamol and codeine had worked their miracle on Bossman's back pain, so we walked along the Fossa. As we rounded the corner from Santa Marta, the Rock was silhouetted in the sunlight, and out from my pocket came my camera. "You can't take a picture here, into the sun, it won't turn out..." he said...

The only sign of last night's revels was a sad silver balloon floating in and out on the surf.

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The Mystery of the Orchid Continues...

The Mothers' Day orchid is in flower again, with yet another subtle variation.

These are the flowers produced in May; dark pink with a slightly speckled effect on the lower half.


These were produced in September; red and cream with pronounced speckles. I thought there was a slight possibility that there were two different plants in one pot, but...


... here we are in December, and these flowers have opened; they are on the very same stem as the May flowers, but rather than being dark pink, are the red of the September flowers, without any speckles.

I need to do more research...

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Wednesday Water Went Walkabout

I had all of October's WWs on scheduled posting. Blogger seems to have chewed some of them up and spat them out in a dark corner somewhere, so I am trying to do them again, with more success this time, I hope.

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Bird Bath...

Mystery

These two flower spikes are growing from the same plant. The dark pinky red flowers are the ones it had in May when I bought it, and the spotty ones are the ones it has grown since I have had it in my care. I wonder how it did that? Maybe I'm not doing something I should be doing...

Vandalism?

This was taken on site at the Roman Villa down in the sand dunes and shows the conservation work that has been done by archaeology students in the few weeks that the Town Hall could fund this year. Do you see those regularly spaced blank bits on the left? They were made by the spikes on a bulldozer shovel wielded by someone who thought he could destroy the evidence before the authorities stopped his plans to build on the site...