Day 5

seek what you need

no more

no less,

for nature

will provide for you

if you provide for her

…

Here are the rules for the “Five Photos Five Stories” challenge: “Post a photo each day for five consecutive days and attach a story to the photo. It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or a short paragraph and each day nominate another blogger for the challenge.
(Sporadic posting is alright if you’re unable to post each day.)

Once more I must step in to the WorldWideWeb and pluck a name for this challenge. My last time. Thus I must choose wisely…Sharon. Again…feel free to ignore my request if you will.

Related posts:

1.  Day 1
2.  Day 2
3.  Day 3
4.  Day 4

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Travel Theme: Blossom

Blossoms…having reverted to rather chilly mornings having blossoms as the travel theme this week brought me back, if only in my dreams, to the softer days of spring. I am missing them. Last week my fire died, well the flue part of it, and I am waiting on it to be repaired, keeping my fingers crossed the temperatures don’t drop any further until it is.

I would really love your help identifying some of these. I do love flowers, and grow a few but am hopeless when it comes to knowing what it is I have half the time.

I do know that this is a protea. hard to miss that one. No idea what type though.

This is a nasturtium right ? Again…no idea what type.

Help !!! What the heck is this ??

So out of my league here. I found this beauty on a walk with Chevvy.

I admit defeat with this one. Found in a garden in Matamata.

Thought I should end on a high note. These are daisies…right ???

Now…just because…

Another Wordless Wednesday…

It’s A Parade !

Cee is running a Mother Earth series in her Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. There are five categories:

• Flowers
• Leaves and Trees
• Nature Animals: birds, squirrels, deer
• Ground: rocks, sand, dirt, paths, walks, trails
• Water: puddles, rivers, lakes

Want to join the challenge…then click on the Cee’s button below.

Spring close ups

Lucky for me I am able to combine both the Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring & Ailsa’a Travel Theme: Close Up this week with a few close up shots that represent spring to me. With winter closing in here in New Zealand, it is enough to make a girl a bit jealous of those of you who are welcoming the flowers, the baby animals and the warmth back in to your worlds.

Bees…under threat here sadly.

These two like sharing.

Flowers are one of the best parts of spring.

I have to compete with these guys for my veges.

Baby hedgehogs squeal when Chevvy appears.

“Did someone say meow?”

Getting this shot was hard…man can these guys run !

“Can I have a crumb please?”

I found this video from an animal rescue mission in Australia. Edgar’s Mission is a sanctuary for rescued farm animals in Victoria. I hope you will visit their site and see some of the wonderful work they do for these precious animals.

On the other side…sadly today is the start of duck shooting season here in New Zealand. Safe is running a campaign here to try to educate people as to the cruelty these beautiful birds suffer:

The campaign highlights how to some, duck shooting may seem like fun but in reality, it means tremendous suffering for the birds.  It is expected that one million waterfowl, many of them native, will be brutally shot and killed.  Up to 250,000 will be left crippled, to die slow and painful deaths.

Small Stone

 

bees drunk on warm pollen below an autumn sunrise ~ a cat yowls next door

Wordless Wednesday

Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold

As we see summer disappear here [though you wouldn’t know it today with the sun shining and the temperature hovering at 24%], my thoughts drift back to when the warmer weather heralded the crossing of a threshold in to the budding spring.

When the agapanthus begin to peek out from their buds I know the door is opening to warmth and new life.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold