5 in 5 - Melanie September

This post is written by my friend Melanie. She lives in Australia and doesn't have a blog.  I keep encouraging her and hopefully she will one day. Meanwhile she wanted to join the 5 in 5 challenge so I am posting her photos on her behalf.  I love that Melanie wants to take part!  Over to Melanie: 

SPRING IN THE FRONT GARDEN AFTER RAIN  – SEPTEMBER

Top left the aloe Vera plant. This plant has beautiful flowers late winter early spring.  The juice in its leaves is excellent for rubbing on stings and burns having a healing quality.  We are never short of a supply with many plants dotted around our front garden.

Top right a marigold.  I put in a few marigold transplants from the back garden last month after getting fed up with seeing weeds on this patch of ground which eventually is to become a pathway to our decking.

Bottom left bird of paradise plant.    This flower is past its best but I still thought it worthy of a photo.

Middle a ground cover plant whose name escapes me.  I planted this recently in the hope that it cover a bare patch of garden.

Bottom right the first flowers on our new nectarine tree.  We had a beautiful nectarine tree in the back year which died last year so have now planted a new one and given it a spot in the front garden.

I am really appreciative that Melanie took the time to take photos and write this post. Especially as her daughter has just had a serious car accident while in Nambia and is currently in hospital waiting to be flown back to UK. Luckily she seems to have had a lucky escape, even though she may need an operation on her spine,
and Melanie is flying back to UK to be with her daughter when she is transferred. 
So a special big thank you to Melanie for taking part this month, and  special thoughts to her and her family at this difficult time.  The one positive outcome is that I may get to see her again much sooner than I expected!!!

5 in 5 - PIN MILL September 2013

Welcome to '5 in 5' where on the 5th of each month I post 5 photos

that I have taken in 5 minutes. 

 

   

And here's my photos for September, taken at Pin Mill in Suffolk. 
This is the area where Arthur Ransome wrote Swallows and Amazons, a series of adventures about children sailing.  I must find my copies and re-read them.... recapture those wonderful memories of reading at bedtime.  And in later years we had our own adventures sailing
these same rivers in a Thames Sailing barge, with pirate parties on small islands and exploring back waters where seals watched our passing.  But I digress...

Because today I visited by car with friends.  For lunch.  The sun was shining and it was hot.  People sat outside the pub enjoying the view and I felt like I was on holiday.  I decided I must come here more often,  I love boats and anything to do with the water, and there was plenty of photo opportunities. 

The perfect place and time then for '5 in 5'!  And so I set my timer for 5 minutes and here are 5 of the photos that I took: 

 

Memories of a happy day.  And a reminder not to leave it too long before my next visit.

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And if you like photo challenges I would love you to join in.  Here is the plan:

1.  Choose a location.

2.  Have your camera ready.

3.  Set a mobile timer for 5 minutes.

4.  Take as many photos you can until the time is up.

5.  Choose 5 photos to download and share by using the link tool.
   You have until the 25th of the month to add your photos. 

 

If you want to know more there are details here.

  

Thank you to those who have taken part so far. I have loved seeing your photos and hope you will be back with more. 

And don't forget, you have until 25th to post your link!