SweetMyrtle

strawberry promise...

  

curious snail...

our weekend was spent pottering in the garden... weeding...sowing... planting... playing...relaxing and eating but it was also a time of reacquainting ourselves with all the little creatures who we share the garden with...

i watched this  snail for a while.. i felt a surge of wonder and delight, as if i were a small child discovering a snail for the first time....

oh how i love our garden and how i love Springtime!

experiment ~ grape bells

i have been playing around with colours and cropping today....these muscari now resemble juicy grapes... their common name actually is 'grape hyacinth', which after my little experiment makes perfect sense to me.

wishing you a very happy weekend x

muscari...

green week ~ day 3

more green here

looking at leaves

on the top picture i desaturised and cropped the original image so as to focus on the fine detail of the veins - i love the crisp curled egde.

on the second and third images i held the leaves up to the window and the sunlight shone through them beautifully enhancing their colours... these are the actual colours as i shot them.

...can you see the cobweb on the last image? it's just behind the glass pane.

soft and delicate

beginning to blossom...

still protected yet  gently unfolding.

petals

hibiscus

i have a wonderful hibiscus tree in the garden.  it must have been planted sometime back in the 1970's  as usually these plants are shrub size.

early in the year a pale pink clemetis climbs through it's bare branches.
in early summer it's lime green leaves unfold bringing a lush freshness to it's silhouette.
but come late summer when the tightly closed buds have started to open it is just heavenly.
this year the first florish of flowers opened whilst i was on holiday. so you can imagine what a delight it was to find on my return.