Monday, May 28, 2012

~ fabulous fuzzies ~

Here's this week's version of mostly macro Monday.

We started calling hibiscus fuzzies over on flickr years ago.
My friend Helen is to blame -  and she takes the most beautiful photos of them...check them out here

Here are some of my favourites from the archives...we don't find them so often here in chilly Tassie - so they're like holiday postcards for me.









 





 


We had quite an eventful weekend - we lost a kitten for a night (locked in the cubby house it turns out - one very unhappy, clingy kitten emerged the next day) and Gracie sliced her foot open with a saucepan lid requiring minor surgery at home at bedtime on Saturday.

Today the sun is shining, the jobs are (mostly) done and I've got a ginger cake in the oven for afternoon tea with some old friends (but Jack and I did some dodgy measuring so I'm not sure it will turn out ok -  however, there are back-up mint-slices in the fridge).

Lots of work on this week and then school holidays.
How's your week looking?  Can you grow hibiscus?

 



5 comments:

  1. There is a kind of hibiscus that I've seen grow here in Canberra but mostly it gets too cold for the big lush ones. That said, I love capturing them when I see them. Helen's pictures are gorgeous I agree!

    Mmmm ... can't go past the back-up mint slices (though the acronym's strangely fitting ;-) )

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  2. Helen is indeed Queen of the Fuzzies but your photographs are ever so lovely as well :)

    And as you know, I can't grow anything :p

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  3. Stunning photographs, I'm just learning about macro. No hibiscus in Surrey, but plenty of vibrant rhododendrons at this time of year x.

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  4. Your photographs are always beautiful ally! What camera do you use? X

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  5. gorgeous - we have a native hibiscus, which is lovely, but doesn't have those luscious colours

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