A couple of years ago I posted on The Firefly Photo Files about the Spider Lilies I have in a pot at home (here and here). I was very surprised to find a lot of Spider Lilies in flower next to the big fish pond in St Georges Park when I walked through there the other day. Was quite impressed to see them in flower seeing that mine flowered about a month or so ago already.
Driving along the wine farms between Robertson and Bonnievale recently there were a lot of orchards with Kanna flowers growing between it and the road. I know in some areas they plant roses next to the orchards to warn the farmer of deceases but I'm not sure if the Kannas are for the same purpose or just to look beautiful. Because they did look beautiful if nothing else.
Yellow wild flowers growing along the Sundays River outside Port Elizabeth
After all the rain we had late last year the Maitland Nature Reserve trail was a little overgrown when I did it in December. What was nice though was the fact that everything was green and there were lots of flowers. We did have to bundu bash a bit every now and then, but it was worth the effort.
Whenever I find a beautiful historic building I like to take at least two kinds of photos. One straight on to show the building itself and a second one with something in the foreground so that the building forms the background of the picture. I would have preferred the white roses in front of the Montagu Dutch Reformed Church in the Western Cape to have been red as was the case with the Old Mission Church in Montagu, but I'm not complaining.
The Montagu Museum in the Klein Karoo town of Montagu is housed in the town's Neo-Gothic style Old Mission Church which was built in 1907. At the end of 2011 we spent 10 days in the town and decided to return at the end of 2012. After our 2011 visit I did a blog post about the museum so I don't really want to do a similar one this time around. I did look for a nice angle to photograph the building…
Not everybody likes arum lilies but I have a special fondness for them, specially when they grow wild somewhere in nature. I found this one growing along the Shark River in Happy Valley.
The sun rises on a new day and a new year. HAPPY NEW YEAR! (hope I didn't say that too loud for those who were out celebrating last night) to all the readers of FireflyAfrica: The Firefly Photo Files. May 2013 be a year of happiness, prosperity and sommer everything else you would like it to be.
I know that not everybody loves arum lilies like I do, but I just can't get enough of them specially when they grow wild somewhere in a forest or next to a stream. This one was growing next to the Storms River Mouth Trail in the Tsitsikamma National Park.
The summer is upon us and soon thousands of sun seekers will be flocking to the beachfront with both locals as well as visitors enjoying the sunshine. One of the places that many will visit is Happy Valley next to Humewood Beach with its story characters and colourful lights in the evenings.