Sunday Post: Shelter

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Shelter is something every living being needs to survive

BEES need a hive to protect them. 

We, human beings build a hive for them to use.

Moving in and out of their save SHELTER

Weekly Photo Challenge: Together

Here is how it works:

1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog anytime before the following Friday when the next photo theme will be announced.

2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.

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http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/weekly-photo-challenge-together/

Together

Mother and children TOGETHER

Brothers and sisters TOGETHER

Rugby Quilt

This past week was a bit hectic . No time to sit around doing nothing. I had to finish of an order for a rugby quilt. I gave myself 4 weeks to complete it but this week I decided it must be done and handed over to the new owner .

Well, the result was good. I finished it of on Wednesday and delivered it on Thursday. Today I finished another one for a cot. I only need to do the binding the rest is done!

Some photos of my rugby quilt.

My best mate today

I decided to take some photos of my best mate, Trompie.

In my kitchen door I have a cat door. The cat door is too small for Trompie to go through it.(or he is too big for the cat door).

He loves to poke his head through the door and have a look what the birds (sometimes a cat) are doing on his deck!

Yesterday I had to lock him inside because someone came to fix my outside gate. While I was outside he was peeping through the flap!

To the side!

To the front!

Trompie my best mate today  April 25, 2012

A – Z Archive: Q! Tuesday Photo Challenge

Q stands for Quilt

Whit this quilt I won a first prize as the best beginner.

Here are some quilts that were on display that day.

http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/a-z-archive-q-challenge/

Sunday Post: Staircase

Very narrow and steep staircase up to the bedroom!

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Here’s how the weekly photo Competition works:

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sun

Sunset over mighty Zambesie River in Zimbabwe

Sunrise over Victoria Falls

Share a picture with the SUN! 

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One-Shot Wednesday

New Zealand Praying Mantis

Orthodera novaezealandiae

This species is found only in New Zealand. It has a bright blue-purple parch on the inside of its front knees. The front section of its body(behind the head) is broad(unlike the African praying mantis) It can eat 25 flies a day.( from Andrew Crowe – A mini guide to identification of New Zealand INSECTS)

This praying mantis had only one front leg but was still very quick to catch the fly.

http://beetlesinthebush.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/inaugural-one-shot-wednesday/

This is how it works:

”One-Shot Wednesday”! Ever photograph an insect and only get off a single shot? Not just one keeper from a series of photos, but only one single photo of the insect, like it or lump it! That’s what I’m talking about here. The subtext, of course, is that there was only that one chance to get everything right—exposure, focus, composition, lighting, etc. Obviously, it’s not my plan to show crappy photos as part of this meme, but rather that occasional instance where I only got off a single shot, and for the most part everything worked pretty well to produce a decent photograph. I would, of course, be more than happy to see this meme take off and spread throughout the insect blogging community, but if it doesn’t and it remains a BitB exclusive then that’s fine also.

Wise words

Garden Memories

A garden unearths

parts of our childhood

of backyard memories

and every thing good

Of marvelous mud pies,

rocks and bugs, mending scraped knees

with Mothers hugs.

But most of us can best recall,

picking a fistful of flowers

with magical powers

to light up our

Mothers face

written by Sandy Redburn

April is Poetry month. Try your hand at poetry or read some poetry.

ENJOY

A – Z Archive: P! Tuesday’s Photo Challenge

The letter P gives me

Paua Shell

Shell halfway polished and cleaned

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81ua

Pāua is the Māori name given to three species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs which belong to the family Haliotidae(there is only genus Haliotis), known in the United States and Australia as abalone, and in the United Kingdom as ormer shells.

Next P is for  Peacock

The 3rd P I think of is PROTEA

I could not believe that I would find a Protea so close to my home. I had to take a photo of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protea

Protea ( /ˈproʊtiːə/)^[1] is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of South African flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes (Afrikaans: suikerbos).

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