What did you get up to today?

Tess (Tassie D) · April 04, 2017, 06:28:05 AM

My South African blood lily, Haemanthus coccineus, was open before I even noticed. Managed to get a photo after a honey eater bird had it's way with it lol.

Hannie · April 04, 2017, 11:32:16 AM

Love your blood lily Tess, are there no leaves?
South African lilies are so sneaky! I have a clivia, one day there is nothing and the next there is the flower. I can never catch it coming up... :mad:

Shadow · April 05, 2017, 11:23:30 AM

Beautiful flower Tess. Looked it up so I could see the pre-honey-eater-bird look. The clivia is gorgeous too Hannie. What else do you gals have in your gardens?

Candice · April 05, 2017, 04:02:09 PM

I bet the bees love your flower, Tess!

Tess (Tassie D) · April 05, 2017, 10:06:13 PM

Quote from: Hannie on April 04, 2017, 11:32:16 AM
Love your blood lily Tess, are there no leaves?
South African lilies are so sneaky! I have a clivia, one day there is nothing and the next there is the flower. I can never catch it coming up... :mad:

Hannie, it has large leaves first, they die off and the flower comes up. It's weird.

Tess (Tassie D) · April 05, 2017, 10:15:52 PM

Some of our roses.

Lillies.

Camelia

Koalas. ::)

Hannie · April 06, 2017, 07:06:20 AM

Tess, you have a regular zoo there!
The camelia is gorgeous, not easy to get them to look like that.

Your South African blood lily sounds like an alien... :)

This is my morning photo, the coots are busy nesting in a canal near my house. What the dachshund is to dogs, the coot is to birds: totally fearless and feisty.

Tess (Tassie D) · April 06, 2017, 10:07:20 AM

Interesting bird Hannie. I read up on them and they are quite vicious to their chicks if there are too many to feed.

Lynnya · April 06, 2017, 04:10:52 PM

What would we do without our nature walks each day... this is another part of our walks.. they set us up for the day physically and spiritually :)

Shadow · April 06, 2017, 04:21:14 PM

Wow Lynn. What a great place to walk. Here's our morning outing. Some spring babies were out for a stroll.

Tori803 · April 07, 2017, 07:49:24 PM

Love the ducklings! We have migrating birds back but haven't seen any babies yet. A path in a local park we enjoy:

Shadow · April 07, 2017, 10:31:36 PM

Those ducklings are a hoot. We have been watching them every morning.
Like your park path Tori. We enjoy paths or trails that have that dappled sunlight. Something about being surrounded by ole' Mother Nature.

Hannie · April 08, 2017, 08:06:48 AM

I love the backlight on the ducklings, great Easter photo!

This is such a nice topic. When I went out this morning I noticed that over the years I have paid less and less attention to what is out there in my neighbourhood.

I saw that the the city placed floating islands in the canal and the birds are building nests there.
Also lovely little potted floral arrangements that residents place on the sidewalks. :)

Candice · April 08, 2017, 08:38:01 PM

Beautiful! Beautiful! Quack (beautiful) :)

Mhayes · April 09, 2017, 10:22:47 PM

Beautiful says it all, but now I am so jealous! Things are just starting to leaf out here and my only hope was that a storm would come through before nightfall--now it is at 10 pm. I'll think of something and in the meantime I will sulk. ;)

This has been a really fun subject--keep it up. :up:

Margie