Festival of Leaves: Week 9

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In the southern hemisphere summer is very eminent and the temperatures are rising very rapidly.  We were away for a long period and came back to a very neglected garden.  It took some time to nurse the plants back to good condition. Slowly but surely they start to show their appreciation.

This week I would like to show you my husband’s fig tree

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Festival of Leaves: Week 8

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to see more blogs on this theme, make sure to visit Verena’s blog

this is an old picture taken by some one in my family.  Ferns  are popular for their beautiful leaves.  My favurite is this maidenhair fern

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taken in the tropical part of the two oceans aquarium – Cape Town

Festival of Leaves: Week 7

foilage is a never ending interesting topic for photography and Verena created a lovely opportunity to be on the lookout for leaves

we are moving towards summer but still have a lot of fresh young leaves to enjoy

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young hydrangea leaves

Travel Theme :connections

These past months my time was not always my own and my blogging suffered a lot under it.

Ailsa announced a very interesting theme for this week : CONNECTIONS.

Visit her blog if you would like to get more links on this topic

SMARTIES : As a little girl I arranged them in little heaps.  It could have been two toned or tri-coloured heaps, depending on how I felt.  I formed patterns with them and even used to build little pictures with them.  Lately I only enjoy these tasty titbits but they always connect my mind with my childhood affinity for it.

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Festival of Leaves: Week 6

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once again an opportunity with verena to share our leavy shots

I am a bit slow this week. 

Want to share with you the leaves that grew in my kitchen window. This was my temporary kitchen while we were living in Belgium

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parsley  lettuce and chives

 

At home here in South Africa I have more or less the same

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parsley

 

 

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lettuce

This lettuce sowed itself and flourished in a crack on the stepping stones