Kew Gardens 2nd Smile – The weekend starts

Another wonderful day in Kew Gardens.

Please walk with me through the

Prince of Wales Conservatory

There are Orchids

 

There are meat eating plants

 

Beautiful Cacti

 

 

 

There are waterfalls

 

 

Floating Baking trays….

 

 

 

Amazing plants and colours

 

I can’t get enough of the natures variety and beautiful displays.

 

Hope you enjoy the small tour. Soak it up and relax!

Wishing all a relaxing weekend!

 

All pictures taken by me at Kew Gardens.

Please let me know if the pictures display correctly. Thanks

Flowers on Traffic Islands

I have been memory making ……

In Bavaria, I found meadow flowers in roundabouts and on little traffic islands.

This is to attract more bees everywhere.

They are a mixed colourful variety,

Aren’t they just lovely.

 

Such a joy to see them everywhere!

More memories coming soon!

My new bicycle

As I love riding a bicycle, I found a new one I really liked.

More like a Dutch style bicycle.

This is a big frame, big wheels and it is very comfortable, to get on too.

(more like the bike I had which was stolen 3 years ago.)

After that I bought a folding bike to keep at home.

Now I have a place in a bike hanger, close to my house, so I could get myself a bigger bike again.

The folding bike found a loving new home too.

 

Direct from the dealer I rode it home on the scenic route along the river.

It was a lovely day and perfect for a ride, just glorious.

It is called ‘cafe’ – I like that 🙂

I bought myself a basket for the front too for little shopping.

Now I can go to many more rides and enjoy the sunshine and outdoors.

Do you ride a bicycle ? and enjoy it ?

Enjoy the little beauties along the road, walking or cycling,

nature calls, go for it!

Holiday Time

Finally August and for most it is holiday time.

For me it also means time do to things around the house.

Here an update:

My wooden kitchen worktop needed a little tender loving care.

So I started to sand it down.

Now nice and smooth, I can varnish it.

Another day I made bracelets. .

I love making jewellery, make presents or sell some at markets occasionally.

I made all these with different seed beads.

 

I have in my garden an ‘elephant ear’ plant, it grows amazingly big.

 

 

As you know I love my plants and flowers.

Therefore I became a ‘friend of Kew Gardens’.

Kew Gardens is a wonderful huge botanical garden offering unique landscapes and iconic architecture from every stage of the Garden’s history.

It has a collection of living plants which is the largest and most diverse in the world growing in the gardens and in glass houses.

It is in West London and I can go by train.

I can’t wait to go, out for a day lost in the gardens……

There will be updates on this with more pictures of the gardens.

Wishing all a wonderful Summer 2018!

Wisteria and other beauties along the road

It is colourful flower time

the Earth is laughing!

Beautiful Wisteria hanging out of a garden

Tiny flowers along the shopping mall

Even tinier flower, shot with a Macro lens on my phone.

Petunias in a flower basket

Little flowers , again captured with a Macro lens.

 

and all together

 

Corpus Christi – Fronleichnam

There is a religious catholic holiday in Germany called Fronleichnam

In English it is called Corpus Christi.

I was fortunate to witness it on Thursday, while I visited my mum.

Custom is that people make flower carpets where the procession walks along.

They are made out of leaves, flowers and petals of different colours.

I saw the fresh carpets in the morning, and they were so beautiful.

 

 

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We saw the procession coming from the church.

 

The priest read from the bible and then they

continued to the town center.

 

It was lovely to watch in beautiful sunshine.

Beautiful World!

On a Monday we always need something happy and nice to start the new week.

I bring you some of my favourite colourful pictures to enjoy

and to make your world colourful!

 

The pictures can be found on my my Pinterest page.

Weekly inspiration No 35 – Feast for the eyes

 An amazing Thistle

  

With love

from me

❤ ❤ ❤

Weekly inspiration No 33 – Nature – be overwhelmed

 Everyone should have themselves

regularly overwhelmed by nature.

 

These beauty spots overwhelmed me!

 

 All pictures are from Spain, Catalonia.

With love

from me

❤ ❤ ❤

Weekly Inspiration No – 26 – Beauty

 Beauty is all around us! 

Open your eyes and look at things with

a open and positive mind.

Even daily things look beautiful.

The sky from my window

showed amazing cloud formations and colour!

 

 

Everything has its beauty 

but not everyone sees it. 

Confucius

 

Much love

from me!

❤ ❤ ❤