Flower Friday- Geranium in winter…

Last weekend I bragged about how warm it still is around these parts in winter. Well, nature did not like my words. We are being hit by a cold front, and as I am sitting here in my study, my feet are blocks of ice…  So no riding today.

Today’s flower, the Geranium (Pelargonium) ,  is one of the flowers that spread around the world.

This Geranium was braving the cold with such cheer that I thought I would share it, while all the northern hemisphere bloggers are showing off their summer gardens…

I see different flowers are called Geraniums. These are the kind I know: http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/plants/landscape/flowers/hgic1164.html

 

Flower Friday- Is this an Arum lily?

Being quite clueless regarding to flora, I present these flowers for your consideration. Taken while walking around on the school terrain in Tzaneen in South Africa last weekend…

Can anybody help with what this flower’s name could be?

 

Water Lily on Flower Friday

Today, being my day off, I went to my favorite coffee shop.  Had two cups of decaf- life is really about adaptation!  I miss my high octane java! And the wifi didn’t work there as well…  But as I walked out, my eye caught this beautiful water lily. My favorite coffee shop has quite a few koi dams, and other fountains of various design.  I only had my mobile phone to take the picture.  But it is beautiful to me!

Flower Friday

 

This week I am not near my Postaday wish. I am experiencing some connectivity issues. My wifi router is terminally ill. It gets extremely hot, and then just flashes four green lights. I have ordered a new wifi router on our country’s version of Amazon, but it will take at least 12 days to source, they say. Life without internet, like life without decent coffee, has little meaning left…

Sorry I am not even able to read all my favorite blogs at the moment!

Flower Friday- Water lily

A few weeks ago I posted the leaves of a water lily plant without flowers  on the Festival of Flower Challenge.

When I went to the Game Lodge to conduct a marriage ceremony last Saturday, I saw that the water lilies now are in bloom. And no, I was in no position to get any other angle on this shot…

Flower Friday- Yellow Gazania

 

Today might seem a little boring around here! I think the yellow colour is the base colour of the Gazania flower, all the other exotics have been bred from this. The Yellow Gazania is very hardy, and can take drought extremely good. This one is standing near my swimming pool in the back yard. 

This is all I have time for today. I have just seen the young couple that I am marrying tomorrow afternoon. And now I am waiting for 11 o’ Clock, then I have to conduct yet another funeral, it has been a weekly occurance now for the last few weeks. I believe there will be more interesting posts again soon… Enjoy your blogging, and take care!

The Friendly Rider…

 

Flower Friday…

The Impala Ram ate the flower…
My camera’s battery went flat just when this ram walked by yesterday, so I had to grab the Cellphone to take the picture…

But then I had the chance to put a fresh battery in- and found this flower- is it a disa or an iris?

 

Flower Friday

 

I don’t know what these are called- help if you know….

I don’t have many words this morning, as I have to go and get my bicycle out of it’s winter slumber. It is time to quit being a lazy fatty, and start getting to be a super athlete again.  So in an hour’s time my butt will hurt and my legs will be screaming in pain…  Maybe I will write a lamentation later on today…