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First Rose, Bumble Bee Bum and Tree Fern

05 Jun

1   Our climbing rose has just opened. I’m hoping that the Wisteria that you can see to the left, still in bud, will come into blue blooms to be a beautiful contrast to the roses.

First climbing rose

First climbing rose

2     Just look at the pollen sacs on this bee – so full and heavy, he could barely get from violet to violet.

Bumblebee bum and pollen sacs

Bumblebee bum and pollen sacs

3   At the weekend I had almost decided that our Tree Fern, new last year had not made it despite all the watering and loving attention I have given it. Three days of really warm sunshine and here are the new growths. My friend, John, said on Monday to be patient and he was right!

Tree fern unfurling

Tree fern unfurling

 
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Weekly Photo Challenge – The Sign Says…….

05 Jun

There are lots of signs here and they take me back on our road trip in America in September 2011.

We landed in Phoenix and drove up to Prescott where my sister and some of her grown-up children lived. From there it was on to The Grand Canyon and then across to Denver taking in all the National Parks on the way and lastly taking a fabulous 36 hour train journey to San Francisco for a few days in the city.

This was a fabulous trip indeed and I was very glad of this challenge to go back through the photos. I invite you to take the trip with me now.

From Phoenix to Prescott where my sister lived
On Route 66
Still hiking
Grand Canyon
Cape Final Trail
Hiking along the rim
Bluff City
Left Arizona, into Utah. Love the name
Visitor Centre where they were very helpful and friendly
Loved this sign in a shop in Moab. The shop next door was full of stuff but clearly abandoned
In Moab
In Arches National Park
In The Rockies
Watch out for coyotes in Colorado
Going to get the train from Denver to San Fransisco – 36hour trip!
Loved this in SF. I used the side door!
San Francisco docks
In San Francisco
Love this quotation in the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. It was in the cafe here that I took the phone call from C to tell me that his beautiful wife, Kath, and my dear, dear friend had died. Kath is the inspiration behind my blog
 
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