Macro Monday – December 25th 2023 – Merry Christmas

Macro Monday – December 25th 2023 – Merry Christmas

Happy Monday and merry Christmas! I hope you’ve had a beautiful day. Though I should probably do something Christmas related for today’s picture… but this is the last photo for 2023’s Macro Monday and I just love this rose so … Continue reading

Macro Monday – December 18th 2023 – Nostalgia

Macro Monday – December 18th 2023 – Nostalgia

Happy Monday! I hope you’ve had a great day. Today’s photo is of a beautiful hybrid tea, nostalgia*, one of my favourites. Thank you for visiting 🙂 take care. *Edit 23 December 2023 – I uploaded this photo earlier in … Continue reading

Macro Monday – December 11th 2023 – Sea Anemone

Macro Monday – December 11th 2023 – Sea Anemone

Happy Monday! We had a great time at the Marine Encounters at the NZ Marine Studies Centre in Portobello yesterday. It was very informative and the touch tank was pretty cool. The sea anemones were beautiful. Thank you to the … Continue reading

Macro Monday – November 20th 2023 – Nymph

Macro Monday – November 20th 2023 – Nymph

Happy Monday! I couldn’t decide which of these two photos to use today so I’m using both. My husband found this beautiful little nymph out in the garden and brought it in to show me. It’s been interesting reading about … Continue reading

Macro Monday – November 6th 2023 – Drosera Capillaris

Macro Monday – November 6th 2023 – Drosera Capillaris

Happy Monday! I hope you’re well. Todays photo is of the Drosera Capillaris, also known as the pink sundew, is a species of carnivorous plant belonging to the family Droseraceae. It is native to the southern United States, the Greater Antilles, western and southern Mexico, Central America, … Continue reading

Macro Monday – September 11th 2023 – Chlorophytum Comosum

Macro Monday – September 11th 2023 – Chlorophytum Comosum

Happy Monday! I hope you’ve been keeping well! Once again it’s been a while, whoops… life’s run away on me again. I don’t know where the year has gone but this week we are due to welcome a new addition … Continue reading

Macro Monday – June 6th 2022 – Pine

Happy Monday! What a beautiful day it is today, I hope you’re enjoying it. Todays Macro Monday gets up close and personal with a female pine cone’s scales. Cool fact from ypsilibrary.org “Did you know that female pine cones open … Continue reading

Macro Monday – May 9th 2022 – Marlborough Rock Daisy

Happy Monday! I hope you’re well! Today’s image is probably one of my favourite Macro Mondays so far, it is of the lovely Marlborough Rock Daisy in it’s final form, it once had bloomed a disk of beautiful tiny yellow … Continue reading

Macro Monday – May 2nd 2022 – Classic Red

Happy Monday! How are you? Today’s image is of the magnificent LD Braithwaite (a stunning David Austin English Rose). “The brightest, light crimson blooms of all the English Roses. The petals are loosely arranged to form beautiful, large, slightly cupped … Continue reading

Macro Monday – April 25th 2022 – Lest We Forget

Hello! Happy special Monday! Todays image (Poppy seed head) seems to fit in a tiny bit with the special day that it is today, Anzac Day. Fourth verse of Laurence Binyon’s ‘For the fallen’ “They shall grow not old, as … Continue reading