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Throwback Thursday #28

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A great Challenge from Wetanddustyroads

Club Mykonos , Langebaan. May /June 2011

Our first visit to Langebaan.

Now We are living here!

Club Mykonos
Club Mykonos’ flat roofs in Langebaan
Reflections on the water – Club Mykonos Marina, Langebaan
Marina at Mykonos
Windmill with a thatched roof at Mykonos

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #252 What’s Bugging You?

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Donna is this week’s host for the Lens-Artist challenge

Insects are also called bugs

What are the 4 types of bugs?

The largest numbers of described species in the U.S. fall into four insect Orders: Coleoptera (beetles) at 23,700, Diptera (flies) at 19,600, Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps) at 17,500, and Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) at 11,500. Google

Bugs
Flowers
Unidentified  Bug hiding in a white rose
Blow/Bottle Fly
Flowers
Butterfly
An unidentified moth in my garden
Cabbage tree emperor moth caterpillar
Flowers
A tiny White Moth
Common Milkweed Locust
Praying Mantis

Flowers

 

Can a spider be called a bug?
 
 
Often though, ‘bug’ means a creepy-crawly in everyday conversation. 
It refers to land arthropods with at least six legs, such as insects, spiders, and centipedes.
Flowers
Yellow spider cathing a fly
Dew drops on a spider web
Rain Spider

 

Throwback Thursday #25

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A great Challenge from Wetanddustyroads

Our Karoo trip continued…

To Prince Albert and The Swartberg Pass

Lovely buildings in Prince Albert
Shop in a beautiful old building
Painted Rubbish Bin
Swartberg Mountains
Swartberg pass
Road meandering through the mountains.
My first ever experience of seeing snow! I am the shorty
Snow on Swartberg Pass
Snow on Swartberg Pass
Snow on the Swartberg Pass
Snow on Swartberg Pass

Nature Photo Challenge: #12 Trees

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Denzil Nature: Trees

South Africa is known for its beautiful coastline on the Western Coast, but with this comes quite harsh windy and salt spray conditions for our plants and trees.

The White Milkwood tree is one of your best options for a dense shade or screen or windbreak tree along the coastal areas, because it can withstand quite extreme weather conditions.

Sideroxylon inerme is a Southern African coastal tree, with dense foliage, black berries and small, greenish flowers. The tree’s generic name means “Iron-wood” in Greek, referring to its very hard timber. It is one of South Africa’s “Protected Trees” and several specimens are provincial heritage sites. Wikipedia

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Kirstenbosch gardens with lots of trees
Velddrift


Phoenix canariensis – Canary Date Palm
This classic tropical tree makes a bold statement in any large garden, estate or farm. Often planted along our coastal sidewalks due to its excellent tolerance to strong winds and sea spray. It has become very popular over the years due to its capacity to store water in the trunk of the stem, making it a great waterwise choice in drought-stricken areas. The birds also like to use the foliage for building their nests.
Palm trees
Palm tree on the beach – Saldanha
Palm Trees – Port Owen

Buddleja saligna – False Olive / Witolien 

Fast growing, indigenous and evergreen with stunning flowers? Sign us up for this tree please!

This is a very versatile tree that can be pruned into a beautiful tree shape as well as kept low for hedging purposes. The lovely woven-like bark also adds ornamental value and the beautiful balls of blossoms in summer gives this tree a wow-factor! To top it off, it can do well in windy conditions, coastal conditions and clay soil

Young False Olive trees
Buddleja saligna, the false olive or bastard olive, is almost endemic to South Africa where it has a wide distribution. It occurs most often in ravines and against outcrops, and is distributed from coastal elevations to the central plateau at elevations of < 2000 m.

If you look closely, you will find a sunbird hiding in this tree.