Imagine opening your curtains early morning and seeing this!
Sadly this beautiful flower only lasts for one day!
The "Echinopsis" flower opened last night and tonight it will be gone, as it only lasts for 24 hours.
Today I bring you the beauty of the extravagant interspersed with the beauty of the normal.
What do I mean? Come and have a look!
This beauty below is a normal gem squash pumpkin flower!
Unfortunately I only got 2 shots of the "Acraea hortea" butterfly on the "echinopsis" flower!
This little beauty is a peanut bush flower!
Planted by our own squirrels.
For real beauty it is difficult to see any other flower more beautiful than the one day echinopsis.
But then again, all flowers are beautiful!
This is only an ordinary potato flower!
A little bee also visited the echinopsis!
I was so hoping that a Citrus butterfly will come to sit on it!
But the bees seem to favor the pumpkin flowers more!
Here is that same bee inspecting the other side of the echinopsis flower!
To live in the lee of a mountain range certainly has its benefits as far as nature is concerned.
The promised "Lanner Falcon" post will have to wait until tomorrow, as I deemed the gift of the echinopsis flower more important!
Anything unexpectant can take place at any moment over here and one has to be watchful at all times. Not one day is the same due to the abundance of wildlife in the area.
Good news is that I have obtained a chart with the names of all the mountain peaks on it and now I can start to identify them.
My favorite is that single column next to the valley in the last picture here!
And that's All Folks!
I leave you with this!
"You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow".
Oscar de la Renta
Note: All photos are my own and taken with a Canon Powershot SX60HS camera.
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