How Spookey - jangold

Well what a coincidence this is.

I keep on my laptop a folder of pics to post to my blogs and to Polygirls and in it I had this photo of the same bird of paradise flower that Xena posted !!

Mine was taken in it's native South Africa at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town which I visited in Oct 2007. They are beautiful gardens which I have not visited before on my previous two visits and the part where this flower was found was a special area dedicated to Nelson Mandella and had been specially opened by him. As Xena said the meaning behind the flower is freedom therefore this flower was adopted by the black South African's as their national flower. I have some beautiful pics of those gardens and of the sculptures in there - I will post some more in the future.

Paris - Angel_Emz95

Check me out in my new beret! :))

Me and my friends in the queue for the Eiffel Tower! (Clockwise from top: Fi, Ellie, Emma, Me, Adam, Dom)

Feeding the birds in the gardens of the Louvre!

The Arc de Triomph ( it was difficult to photograph because buses kept driving in the way!)

La Tour Eiffel, naturalement...

Notre Dame (unfortunately, it was closed, so we didn't get to go inside.)

The fountain in the Louvre gardens.

I missed you all very much!!! And I'm sorry it took my so long to do this post.

Unfortunately... I caught an infection from my sister, so now I'm ill :(

It's only flu really, but with my hayfever as well it's not pleasant!

Love, Em XOXOXO

Let's talk toilets - jangold

Hi girls - you probably think I've gone completely mad now. Well I thought I'd share these photos I took last November and a little story with you. Some of you may have heard of Friedrich Hundertwasser - an artist, architect and ecologist. Born in Austria 1928, he moved to New Zealand in the 1970s where he died in Feb 2000. Known for his bold and bizarre designs the Kawakawa Toilets (as pictured) were the last project he completed before he died. Kawakawa is located in the northern part of the North island of New Zealand in the Bay of Islands area. I have been fortunate to visit ths area twice and last time paid a visit (no pun intended !!) to these famous toilets. All locally sourced materials were used to build these toilets including those made by local students, including ceramics and glass. This has raised the profile of the small town of Kawakawa and there are on-going and further plans to make it an art-related town. Hugs Jan PS click on picture for a more detailed look at the pics

My photos - Angel_Emz95

Here are some of the photos from my trip North...

Mainly they are from Little Moreton Hall and Lyme Park.

I hope you like them!! (sorry there are so many!)

Love, Em

XOXOXOXO

My weekend. PoliXena

Morning dear friends, sorry for the lack of entries but I´ve been very busy lately. I´m at my Mom´s house, I came here to attend my niece´s wedding... it has been a wonderful weekend, I had the chance to meet most of my family members and other relatives, talk, dance and so on.






















They celebrated it in a gorgeous place, here are some photos of the landscape around us and the bride looking at it, obviously she is pregnant ;)

I´m so happy for her!... she is deeply in love and happily waiting for her baby girl. Tonight I´ll travel back home, I live 50 minutes (flying) from here.

Happy Sunday. Hugs! X. xx

Large flowers - from jangold

In the continuing weather in the centre/northern part of the UK I've been forced to post outdoor pics from other places. I loved the 'large' flower that Gwyn posted, therefore, I wanted to share these two pictures with you. I took these in Mauritius and are from the famous Pamplemousses Garden there. The one on the left is from the lotus pond and the one on the right is from the more famous giant water lily pond. The pictures do not do these justice and many of these lilies are up to 2 feet in diameter. If you want to see more pics from the garden please check out: http://www.travelmauritius.info/pamplemousses_garden.html Jan