In the garden this morning

The Day Lily. It derives its name from the Greek hemero = day and kallos = beauty, and of course, only flowers for a day.

Gaura, native to North America and I found out today; also found in a yellow variety.

The ubiquitous agapanthus, indigenous, and deriving its name from the Greek agape = love and anthos = flower.

After taking pictures of flowers in Prince Albert some months ago I decided to buy two books on flowers so that I would no the name of the flowers I was photographing.

They were; 'What flower is that?', by the late Kristo Pienaar, and 'Wild Flowers of South Africa' by Braam van Wyk. Both are available on http://www.kalahari.net.

So, when I took photographs in the garden this morning, I looked up the details of each of the lovely subjects and I learned so much!

Good old fashioned Karoo breakfast

'Morning After Breakfast' served at Lah-di-dah in Church Street.

More Prince Albert flowers

Prince Albert flowers

Some photo's taken with my new Canon EOS over the weekend.

More to follow...

Feeding

Lemon Cordial

Arno came back from a ride and told us that the Jooste's lemon tree had dropped so many lemons and they were just rotting under the tree. We rode to their house yesterday and asked them if we could have some lemons. We filled a shopping bag with these lovely thick-peel lemons; 20 in all.

This morning my mom and I decided to make lemon cordial. We weighed the lemons at just short of 3 kg's. They yielded exactly 4 cups of juice. I don't like a very sweet cordial so we added 3 cups of sugar, overfilling the last one just a little.

We stirred until all the sugar had melted making sure that it didn't boil.

Voila! Two beautiful bottles of lemon cordial. A Saturday morning well spent. Now for a tall glass, a sprig of mint, a slice of lemon, some cordial and ice cold sparkling mineral water.

National Braai Day

It's National Braai Day! Like we needed one! Above is a picture of Trevor at his braai. My parents' tradition is to braai every Saturday evening but we're swopping days tonight. After a very sunny day with just the right temperature, a cold a wind has come up now making us all put our jackets on and brave it next to the fire.

Tonight is the 2nd night market held at the market square in town. Our plan is to head that way after 8pm so that it's at least dark when we get there.