The Three Legged Bee, The Flower And Me

In Deep Jungle I Can See Your Light

In the very shape of things there is more than green growth;
There is the finality of the flower.
It is a world of crowns.
G K Chesterton

Eating The Sun

A camelia eating the sun.

The Bridesmaiden

photographic installation with four delicate white flowers

My Companion

You might have noticed a slight change in scenery lately. After 5 years in Africa, without having been to the Old World, I spent a holiday of six weeks in Europe. 

One week and one day for every year spent in the South. 

This was my beloved companion. The 30 year old orange Peugeot bicycle of my mother. It was released from it's uncomfortable and dusty position under the garage roof, where it has been tied up for decades. My brother's friend Olli gave him tender love and care. Bless you Olli !

My companion was allowed to roam free again.

You could almost hear him sigh.

And believe me: to what places of wild and un-tamed beauty I was driven !

Into the woods and over the land.!

Where the trees are known to someone by their very own personal name

I Don't Want To Let You Go

I do not, no I really really do not want to let you go

I want you to be mine forever and ever.

But I know I have to.

The Paint Brush

The First Ray Of Light

And this is one of my latest photos called the first ray of Light.

Available here: Chocolat Negro Fine Art Photography

FLOWER BALLS

Very beautiful but considered alien and invasive in SOUTH AFRICA.

Plumbago

Plumbago, an indigenous South African flower.
Like everything and anything, that is downplaying it's beauty it is of incredible infatuation.

Transparency

True transparency comes often with death like the leaves of this dying flower that lived only 2 days.

FRESH

INVADED

and possessed by many

I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOUR SHADOW

When I looked your way the other day

I fell in love with your shadow

It is so delicate and fine

that it caused the strangest emotion in me 
to make it mine and only mine

I am sorry and I know you will be so mad

But I have fallen in love with your shadow so deep 
that I cannot look at your face.   

You And Me

YOU AND ME WHEN WE WERE YOUNG.

Beauty Itself

" IF YOU HAVE TWO LOAVES OF BREAD, SELL ONE AND BUY A LILY ".

This is an old chinese proverb but I I think it applies to every flower.
A flower is beauty itself.

LIFE'S POETRY

Life is saying a poem in this picture.

The flower has come to a last rest on the fence in absolute elegance and grace. 

Everything is soft and supple and flowing.

The petals look like as if they have transformed into a smooth slightly transparent, pink dyed cotton or linen - light as a feather. 

DON'T STOP THE FLOW

Two retired electricity plugs by the sea.

I Love You Flowers

I was walking in a park.

When I saw three pink flowers to my left

I stood still to watch

Sunddenly they said to me:  I love you Dear !

Loud and clear!

Then and there I understood, the world adores me,

the great world loves me back, like I love the world

Almost happy in my heart, I continued with my walk

AND GUESS WHAT?

The pink and whites ones were then saying it too

I love you ! I do !

And the red rainy, one as well

There and then I could not help it

and shouted back with all my heart: ME TOO, I LOVE YOU TOO

Two Queens And An Old Lion From Africa

Bird of paradise flower or Crane flower or STRELITZIA REGINA

I just call them queens of Africa.

The Strelitzia is a striking flower, somewhat bird-like in shape consisting of long green bracts with purple edges that surround orange flowers with bright-blue tongues.

They are evergreen and indigenous with tight clusters of fleshy stems bearing long, oblong, grey - green leaves. 

They are Queens.

Broken Open.....

..

And the old lion in the bush.

Queens that can turn into old lions.

A life cycle.