opposites: foreground - backround

in the walled vegetable garden at Mottisfont Abbey

looking close on friday

manzanas || apples || appels

On a recent farm stay in Yea in country Victoria, were were give this beautiful basket by the owners full of veggies straight from their garden . . . zucchini (with flowers), eggplant and apples to name a few . . . needless to say they tasted amazing!

This beautiful basket full of home grown produce was just begging for a photo or two!

Veg Out Community Gardens, St.Kilda.

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Pumpkin harvest season 2024 - from my vegetable garden.

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Dal mio orto - Raccolto zucche stagione 2024

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This lovely lady has been a part of the Veg Out Community Gardens St.Kilda for some time. I can't help photographing her every time I go there. Imagine the sights she would see and the stories she could tell!

Zucchini flower. Today from my vegetable garden

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Veg Out Community Gardens, St.Kilda.

Just some of the beautiful home grown produce given to us by the owners on a recent farm stay in Yea, Victoria.

See previous post also.

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Fiore femminile di zucca in attesa di impollinazione -

Female pumpkin flower waiting to be pollinated

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Arriving at The Farmers Place to find the vegetable garden there covered in frost was definitely a lovely surprise . . . these fresh frosty mint leaves reminded me of the sugared lolly version we used to eat as kids!

Courgette flowers - Fiori di zucchini

From my vegetable garden - Dal mio orto

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Backyard on the pepper bush in the vegetable garden. A real beauty.

Veg Out Community Gardens, St.Kilda.

Eggplant flower - Fiore di melanzana

From my vegetable garden - Dal mio orto

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Of course I had the wrong lens on when this lovely wee Wren flitted across the vegie garden at the mansion - so best to view large.

Like this lovely bird I will be away for a while ( from tomorrow) with limited internet access. So will try to catch up when I get back). Enjoy the cold rainy weather!

~ Deia ~

I Feel the Earth Move

Carole King

I feel the Earth move under my feet

I feel the sky tumbling down

I feel my heart start to trembling

Whenever you're around

Ooh, baby, when I see your face

Mellow as the month of May

Oh, darling, I can't stand it

When you look at me that way

Hey, I feel the Earth move under my feet

I feel the sky tumbling down

I feel my heart start to trembling

Whenever you're around

Ooh, darling, when you're near me

And you tenderly call my name

I know that my emotions

Are something I just can't tame

I just got to have you, baby

Uh, uh, uh

Uh, uh, uh, yeah

I feel the Earth move under my feet

I feel the sky tumbling down, a-tumbling down

I feel the Earth move under my feet

I feel the sky tumbling down, a-tumbling down

I just a-lose control

Down to my very soul

I get-a hot and cold

All over, all over, all over, all over

I feel the Earth move under my feet

I feel the sky tumbling down, a-tumbling down

I feel the Earth move under my feet

I feel the sky tumbling down, a-tumbling down

A-tumbling down, a-tumbling down

A-tumbling down, tumbling down

Juan les pins, french riviera, france

8 July 2012

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Some of the vegetable plots at Trench Hill gardens, with a view towards the house and its conservatory.

Cornerstone, Sonoma, California

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Courgette flower. Today from my vegetable garden.

Fiore di zucchino. Oggi dal mio orto.

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This is a photo from my vegetable garden. It show a fennel plant on a rainy day. This particular plant (herb) was about 6 feet tall at the time. The photo was taken in August 2021, with my trusty Olympus digital camera. Enjoy and stay well.

P.S. This is the busiest time of the year. There are final assignments to mark and my garden to prepare. So far, the spring has been quite wet and planting is way behind. In any case, I am unable to spend as much time on Flickr as I would like until the school year and planting are complete.

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My Effort here is to pay tribute to the valiant sons of the soil and the ‘die hard’ attitude of a people who can still smile in the face of adversity however great it may be. I plan to make a collage of images that represent the lives of the people of Bangladesh. I encourage you to upload a photo each day till I have a total of 40 images for the Cause SHADHINOTA in the group Frame BANGLADESH"

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Veg Out Community Gardens, St.Kilda.

I spent a wonderful day with the Famous Flickr Five+ recently, down at Anglesea and Airyes Inlet along The Great Ocean Road.

Our day began at a fabulous cafe and restaurant called The Farmers Place. Leaving home it was 1˚C and by the time we arrived for the breakfast around 9.00am we were delighted to see a blanket of frost on the ground and in and around the wonderful vegetable patch there.

I photographed this cute ladybug one rainy day slowly making its way among the branches of a giant fennel plant in my vegetable garden. Indeed, ladybugs often congregate and spend the night among the numerous and twisted branches of fennel plants (dill too) for the greater security they offer. For those who may be curious, the bokeh is natural. The photo was taken in August 2021, with my trusty Olympus digital camera. Enjoy and stay well.

P.S. I have been extremely busy with work lately, and I am slowly catching up on Flickr.

Globe Artichoke in the edible garden at Alowyn Gardens, Yarra Valley.

Harvey and this year's biggest pumpkin.

It'll have to stay where it is as I can't lift it (and neither can Harvey).

32 years ago I cut off a slice of a kiwi and put it in a jar with soil. Very quickly I had a pot full of seedlings. I repotted five seedlings and when the kiwi plants were 20 cm. high I planted them along the garden wall. The plants grew very fast, far above the wall, very decorative with large hairy leaves. After pruning we noticed that our cats loved the kiwi branches, they roll around in them and have really great fun. Cats from the neighborhood also regularly come by to kiwi-curl. In the meantime we have chopped 4 kiwi bushes, otherwise we now lived in a kiwi jungle. One plant is enough to meet the cuddle needs of our cats.

Kiwis we have not yet been allowed to harvest, for that to happen we should have nice warm weather well into November.

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32 jaar geleden sneed ik een plakje van een kiwi af en stopte dat in een potje met aarde. Heel snel had ik een pot vol zaailingen. Ik verpotte vijf zaailingen en toen de kiwiplantjes 20 hoog waren plantte ik ze langs de tuinmuur. De planten groeiden heel hard, tot ver boven de tuinmuur, heel decoratief met grote harige bladeren. Na het snoeien merkten we dat onze katten dol waren op de kiwitakken, ze rollen er in rond en hebben echt grote pret. Katten uit de buurt komen ook regelmatig even langs om te kiwi-kroelen. Inmiddels hebben we 4 kiwiplanten gerooid, anders woonden we nu in een kiwi-oerwoud.Één plant is genoeg om in de knuffel behoefte van onze katten te voorzien.

Kiwi's hebben we nog niet mogen ooigsten, daarvoor zou het to ver in november mooi warm weer moeten zijn.

I spent a wonderful day with the Famous Flickr Five+ recently, down at Anglesea and Airyes Inlet along The Great Ocean Road.

Our day began at a fabulous cafe and restaurant called The Farmers Place. Leaving home it was 1˚C and by the time we arrived for the breakfast around 9.00am we were delighted to see a blanket of frost on the ground and in and around the wonderful vegetable patch there.

Here is another shot from my vegetable garden. It shows cabbage butterflies feeding on flowering greens in the late days of summer. I sometimes leave salad greens in the garden so that they flower and attract butterflies and hummingbirds. The photo was taken in August 2019, with my trusty Olympus digital camera. Enjoy and stay well!

't Woudt is a small village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is located about 5 km southwest of the city of Delft, in the municipality of Midden-Delfland and has less than 40 inhabitants.

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't Woudt is een kerkdorp in de gemeente Midden-Delfland, in de Nederlandse provincie Zuid-Holland. Het dorp ligt tussen Den Hoorn en De Lier.

Het dorp, dat vaak omschreven wordt als schilderachtig dorpje tussen de weilanden, wordt reeds in 1277 genoemd. Het is een klein dorp dat bestaat uit een laatgotisch kerkje, een paar boerderijen, enkele huizen, een herberg/café, een pastorie en een kosterswoning. In 2006 woonden er 36 mensen. Het gehele dorp is beschermd dorpsgezicht. [Wikipedia]