Sunday Pic Spam

[curiouswombat]

Hmm - life has been busy, but without any excitement, recently. Back at work - playing catch-up, but not exciting - just got a few 'thank you's which make me happy, but are not really shareable.

The weather has been wet and windy - but wetter and windier in the south of England than we've had it - I do hope it was not too bad for the wedding, jay_of_lasgalen!

But today it is, at least, dry.

There are a few pictures under the cut - one is a shot I have taken before - but I think this version is even better, there is one showing why we should be flattered by our neighbours, and just a few of the few flowers that have managed to bloom despite the weather.



So - I have taken this shot before - it is taken from outside the clinic where I work, looking down to the sea with the Ben-my-Chree coming in on Tuesday morning - it was an unusual time of day for her to be doing this - she was late due to a technical problem, and seems to be closer in to shore than she was last time I took a similar picture.



Back in March I posted a couple of pictures showing the demise of the triffid out the front of the house. But it has only been in the past couple of weeks that we have finally got the paviours down and the work complete. At the moment there is only one small tub of flowers out there - it will look better with just a couple more, I think - but here we are - job done;



Now - they do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - so here is our next door neighbour, flattering us -



They started within 3 days of ours being done... and then it occurred to me that the white chippings that had been between the plants in their garden were put down with a couple of weeks of the chippings in ours, years ago! Just call us 'The Joneses'!

This is the small plant under the window in our garden -



I am not sure whether to take a couple of plants from out the back and relocate them, or get some new ones. There were a couple of privets in tubs out there before, which are currently out the back, which I might put back, but I think they need a bit of TLC first.

This one could go out there, perhaps - it would need a bit of a trim, first, though -



There is less in flower out the back yard than usual at this time of year - just a few spots of pink - a few monkey plants, ans some stocks -






And the clematis growing in the pear tree - but this year it has flowered so far up, and so deep in the foliage, that it is hard to make out the flowers -



I am hoping for enough sunshine, sometime this summer, that I can sit out there and the pots be full of flowers! Maybe some scent, too. I live in hope.

D-d and a couple of her friends arrived in Rhodes this morning for a week - at least they will have some sunshine!

Comments

[engarian.livejournal.com]

The weather may not be cooperating, but the pavers are quite lovely and I adore that pot of pink flowers.

- Erulisse (one L)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

We had sunshine today... for a couple of hours! I think I will look this weekend for a couple of things to compliment the pink daisies - they make a nice focal point, I think.