Kew Gardens 4th Smile by night

Early darkness invites to many lights.

With Christmas coming up

what is better to combine light with Christmas

and start the Christmas season in the big garden.

Kew’s Christmas Lights!

 

My favourite new flowers in Kew!

 

 

There were light shows with music, laser light pictures projected on a screen of a water fountain, green laser lights with fog, amazing displays of colourful lights, a whole field of lights changing colour with the rhythm of the music and much more. Too much to capture everything on camera. Of course there was mulled wine and hot chocolate too!

I did capture it all in my memory!

Please click on the picture to enlarge them.

All pictures taken by me at Kew Gardens.

 

Today’s Inspiration – Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

 

♥All you need is LOVE! ♥

The mushroom

I’m …… a mushroom;

On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

John Ford

 

Perspective is all!

Today’s Inspiration – Blaise Pascal

Kind words do not cost much.

Yet they accomplish much.

 

Blaise Pascal

 

 

Picture taken by me – Kew Gardens

Knotted

 

Pictures taken at Kew Gardens, knotted wisteria, by me

Quotes via Google

Kew Gardens 3rd Smile

Another visit to my favourite garden.

Every time I explore different areas.

As it is so big, I never run out of finding beauties of nature.

This time I found

the making of a pinecone

 

A really funny shaped very small bloom:

(I don’t know all the botanical names, as my eyes are bigger than my memory)

 

One of my favourite grasses

 

Another pretty little thing – a hanging flower

One of Kew’s famous lizards

a tall proud multi coloured beauty

and another hanging blue miracle

 

‘Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. ¹² The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. ‘ Genesis 1,11

 

All pictures taken at Kew Gardens by me.

God’s painting

My strawberry plant has been painted with autumnal colours

 

 

A joy in my garden

 

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Audrey Hepburn

 

Today’s Inspiration – Aristotle

 

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Aristotle

 

 

 

 

 

Shades of Green

Green is the colour of nature.

The colour of Mother Nature

The colour of Life and energy.

It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility.

Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety.

Dark green is also commonly associated with money.

 

…. just look at these different greens….

so many shades

 

 

and many different shapes and textures.

 

 

Green is relaxing for me, it feels warm, yet fresh.

However I do not have many outfits in green.

Do you love green?

What is your favourite colour?

 

Pictures taken by me at Kew Gardens

Today’s Inspiration – Socrates

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Socrates

 

Picture taken by me – Kew Gardens