My Visit to an Old Village in France

Ville de Riquewihr

~ Entrance to Wine Farm ~

~ Vertical Garden at Entrance of Home ~

~ Interesting Balcony ~

Harvest

Delicious pickings from the garden

Spring - Nature's Flower Show

Baviaantjies (Babiana) 

Indigenous to this area in South Africa; flowering in the garden

The Bluebells - also in flower in the garden

 Word has it that long ago the - then - lady of the house went on holiday to the UK. 

She fell in love with a field of Bluebells (like the one at Coton Manor Garden)

and smuggled some bulbs back to South Africa . . .

Now we know we have these beautiful flowers scattered all over in the garden

we are considering planting all together . . . the fields of Bluebells are spectacular

~ photo from The Telegraph ~ 

~ photo from Coton Manor House ~

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The annual  Darling  Wild Flower  Show - since 1917

and the Orchid Show  

Bern, Switzerland

I Visited the Saturday Morning Market

in Bern, Switzerland, with my friend

three weeks ago

 

Daisies and Dust

I planted some Namaqualand Daisies

with the Nasturtiums in the vegetable garden 

We discovered the original reed ceilings are above the pine ceilings in the kitchen

Oh my . . . what a nightmare . . . two days of dust

to remove the pine ceiling

now to repair the old ceiling,

it will look fantastic when done!

Lots of rain and freezing cold
We went for a drive in the countryside yesterday
It is beautiful . . .
I am used to very dry 'brown' winters
Here it is green and drenched

 

~ our very wet Driveway ~



~ farm outside Wellington SA ~



~ old graves covered in Moss ~

Visitor

 I had a late afternoon visitor yesterday.

a Cape Eagle Owl (I think)

He sat and watched me from our old barn gable while I was in the vegetable garden.

Remarkable to see it so close to our house (only had my phone with me to take photo)

Made sure Louis the parrot and our kittens were safe out of reach, though

Picked my first Pineapple - Never grown a pineapple before!

it smells SO delicious!