Today after a heavy shower, well showers I should say - it rained most of yesterday and quite a bit of this morning, it eventually stopped being wet and the sun actually appeared this afternoon. Pippin came in several times yesterday evening wanting to be dried off - he does it deliberately I swear, just so he'll get a good rubbing down.

I was looking out the bathroom window down onto my pots outside and I noticed that there were more flowers out............







As you can see my pots are coming along wonderfully with lots of flowers on their way. The fuschias in the middle of the bottom photo will be a riot of colour when they all come out.


The saxifrage, Cloth of Gold - the ball of lime green has got lovely little white flowers dotted all over the plant and they fascinate me - they are all sort of jellyish in the middle and when I zoomed in I noticed that the little stamens are really hairy too....





I do love my macro I must admit - it shows up things I'd never know was there because they are so tiny and you can't see them by your eyesight alone........

Then I moved over to the lilies - these had opened up since yesterday..........







This is the yellow lily in all its glory and the orange one is also striking in its colour......





There are many more lilies due to open up soon, so there'll be more flowers to photograph.

There are lots of petunias and some of them are really lovely. The one I tend to gravitate towards is the deep purple one.......





It's a beautiful colour and I was fascinated by the macro of it's central core - it looks almost alien.............

So that's about it folks. Mandi is going back home tomorrow and she was going to stay there until she leaves on the 19th but she's going to come back on Sunday for a couple of days to see me and check that I'm okay before she goes away for 5 weeks. Oh I will miss her, but we'll skype each other every day and that'll have to do until she comes back on 25th July.