SILENT SUNDAY
A WALK IN THE LOCAL HEATH AREA
My husband and I decided to go to the local heath area for a walk in late afternoon when the heat was bearable. It is a lovely and natural area where there are sheep, cows and deer but none of them showed themselves, it is quite a large area (large for my tiny country) so they could be everywhere, as I a can’t walk for long we saw only a small area but it was enjoyable and very very quiet, we only saw a few people who were also walking.
A pine tree and heather (erica), it was only the start of the heather flowering, you can also see how dry the grasses were.
More pines, weathered by the rain, wind, sun and storms.
Close-up of the heather flowering.
More trees and dry grasses.
Dried wood everywhere.
We found proof the cows had been there. The sun made rocks of these “remains”.
We’ll get an early Autumn as we had a very dry Summer.
More trees with Autumn leafs.
Remains of a fallen tree.
What I liked most was the peace and quiet and being in a natural environment. When a tree dies they don’t remove it, they let nature do what it does best. If the tree falls they let it lie, the insects and the funghi do the rest untill there is nothing left, the animals are free to go where they want, they do get a bit of help with food and water but arround the heath area is an electric wire so they can’t escape and get killed on the road. Our country is tiny so we don’t have the space of a much bigger country. Besides, the population density in my part of the country is 507/ square kilometer.
Have a great week and enjoy your garden or balcony, try to create a piece of nature, however small, it will make you happy !!
Take care !
OH DEER !
No I did not make a mistake, it is deer, not dear.
I took this picture when we were in the arboretum a while ago, when I got home I was looking at the pictures I took there and I noticed this tree was special, there is a deer in this tree, can you spot him ??
If so, let me know ok ?
Take care !
BONKERS
The weather is completely bonkers, we went from freezing temperatures with snow, hail, sleet, storms and pouring raining to Spring overnight !!! Yesterday it was such a lovely Spring day with temperatures up to 18 C°, it was the “hottest” 24th of November ever ! It was good enough to sit outside on the patio for lunch or for afternoon tea, alas I do not have a patio yet, the bedding was laid a week ago but ever since it was too wet to lay the tiles. But I did a bit of work in the garden. Cos of the frost and the wind all the leafs came down.
As you can see my fig tree is still full of figs, unripe and not edible.
Here’s another part of the same fig tree.
When the patio is finished we’ll ask the gardener to do a lot of pruning everywhere in the garden, and a few tree’s must go as I want working in the garden to be easier for me, it is just getting too much, as you all know I am not a Spring chicken anymore. Ha !!
I’ll sent pictures of the finished patio and the pruned garden as soon as I can take pictures, when that will be will totally depend on the weather. We used to have 4 seasons, now we still have 4 seasons but they come unpredicted, a Summers day or two, Autumn for a day, then Winter for a few days and then all of a sudden Spring !!!
Have a great week all !!
MY FIGS
It is definitly Autumn now although the temperatures are still above normal. We had a LOT of rain and part of my country is under water. There are still a lot of leafs on the trees.
There is not much to see in my garden, I still have a few flowers, roses and fuchsia’s and my Skimmia Kew Green has many buds who are waiting for Spring.
Skimmia Kew Green has white flowers and normally it has green buds this time of the year but the buds are already white now. This shrub is by far the prettiest thing that I have in my garden at the moment.
My fig tree looks ugly at the moment, it needs a good cut but the best time to cut off branches of a fig tree is between Christmas and New Year if it is not freezing.
As you can see it is still full of figs, alas they won’t ripe anymore as for figs it is too cold.
Another view of my figs.
I cut my fig three down really hard every year as I don’t have the space to let it grow like it normally grows but each year it gives me a lot of juicy figs. And the birds in the garden loves them too. I just can’t keep them off.
I hope you are all ok and enjoying your garden.
Take care !
SILENT SUNDAY
ZOO ZOO ZOO
Last week I went to the zoo in Antwerp, it is a small zoo as it is in the middle of the city center and very old so they can’t make it bigger than it is now. And as small gardens is what I can manage I thought this was the perfect place for a bit of enjoyment. And it was but it was too big for me, fortunately they had many resting area’s and banks all over the place so I could sit down regularly. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day.
Fauntains are always attractive, especially on a warm sunny day.
This plant caught my eye, I had never seen it before but thanks to wikipedia I found out what it was. It is called palm cabbage ; brassica oleracea var.palmifolia. It is also called Winter cabbage. It is bi-annual , winterhardy and edible. It is an ancient vegetable. In the zoo garden they used it between the flowers and it looked very pretty.
This is a cute South-African penguin called ; Blackfeet penguin, they love warmth and water and they are thriving in the zoo.
This big bird looked like a statue, I haven’t got a clue what it is called.
Huge marabou, ugli but impressive.
Crane bird.
Meercat, they had several but they are always on the move. It is very pleasant to observe them.
By far my favorite animals ; monkeys !!! Unfortunally you can’t interact with them as they were all behind glas to protect them from getting illnesses from the visitors.
Spider monkey
As this zoo is very old they have a lot of huge tree’s. This one is a platane.
This is a close up of the trunck of the platane.
A koala, they look so cuddly.
This plant was in the green house, I was amased by the dimention of the leafs.
Sweet love between this 2 young gorilla’s.
Reflection in the water of the penguins.
Unfortunately it was too late in the year to capture all the flowers, normally you have flowers every where.
They had art all over the zoo. This bronze baboon was made by Jaap Klaas (1898-1972).
This icebear was created by Erwin Peeters (1964)
There were lots of other animals but in the end I had to rest, I found myself a nice shady place near the spider monkeys and I told my husband he could go alone and see more animals, so he did.
Have a great day all !
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