message in a bottle

MacroMonday ~  ~     Mellow Yellow Monday  ~  ~     Blue Monday

This is a tiny bottle, which contains shells and sand from Hawaii, together with a wonderful message of friendship through blogging! You see the little bottle below in the middle of that t-shirt.

Yes, look, look, look what came with the mail: our wonderful  Quilly and Thom hosted the 12 days of Xmas, Island Style  last December and yours truly was one of the lucky winners !! Thanks so much for the goodies, Thom,  love every single item, the sticky notes are already in my purse, the clip magnet on my fridge, we haven't eaten the nuts nor the dried mango (yet!). It was Xmas in January for the first time in my life! 

Fall decoration

Mellow Yellow Monday ¸.•*¨*•☆☆•*¨*•.¸ Macro Monday

Seen at the market place. Update:  It's a Leucospermum glabrum, just learned this through blog-hopping! Thanks, Xavi!

white on the beach

Macro Monday

This beautiful white flower grows on the near-by beach, a dune plant...Again, any help to identify it will be greatly appreciated! It looks like some sort of a  Daylily, I found a list of salt tolerant flowers here.

Update:   Thanks to Amoeba, via quilly, who kindly pointed out this is a Pancratium maritimum, the Sea Daffodil.Amoeba also shared a link to these plants growing wild on Crete.

winning colors

Busy times  make it difficult to sit down to blog, that's why this picture is my entry for all of this:

Mellow Yellow Monday, Macro Monday, and Ruby Tuesday

This is one of my two red hibiscus which came with the house ( built in the early 60's), the afternoon sun gives the yellow touches. Red and yellow are the colors of the Spanish flag.  In case you haven't heard (haven't you??) Spain won the World Cup yesterday,  celebrations will continue today as the team returns to Madrid and I imagine the ones from Barcelona arrive here on Tuesday, so there is still soccer fever in the air.

rooting for the home teams

Detail of a  lei with the colors of the German flag: red, black and yellow.
 Red and yellow are the colors of the  Spanish flag.

Quick picture for MacroMonday and Mellow Yellow Monday

The World Cup has kept me busy and  away from blogging. Besides that, my home turned into a youth hostel for the past 10 days hosting college backpackers (either friends' college kids or else friends' kids' friends...), but two at a time at the most. Fun times keeping me away from the computer . On top of all that, the local telephone company reported a major issue which left us without phones and internet for two whole days!  I  was not amused... The World Cup continues but there are only 3 matches left. I am rooting for Germany and Spain, so I will have a tough day on Wednesday when the two teams face each other...more tv days. Did you watch Rafael Nadal win Wimbledon yesterday?? And when the world cup is over, there is still the Tour de France to watch!

more purple

More of the rhododendron shown in the prior post, this time for Macro Monday.

front yard beauty

Macro Monday *** Mellow Yellow Monday

Back from Hamburg, where I was greeted in the morning by these two beauties in a pot (name the pink flower, pls!). From the land of palm trees and succulent plants, Northern Germany always amazes me with its colorful and amazing display of beautiful flowers. The rhododendron were all in bloom and all over, it was fantastic.

red brush

Callistemon laevis. I'd love one for my garden, I took this picture at a park in Valencia.

Macro Monday, Ruby Tuesday

here we go again...!

Mellow Yellow Monday**** Macro Monday

During a 3-week hiatus I kept myself busy with mundane things, like shopping. I bought some pottery and here is the picture of the tag, delicately decorated with a tiny rose glued to it. The owner of the shop was a delightful lady who took care of every little detail, unfortunately she lives miles and miles away.... I also went skiing with much snow and sunshine. That was a also delightful. I had time so I  played around with my nicknames- American friends call me Marcy, some Spanish-speaking friends call me Marce and came up with the one I am using now. I needed a remake of some sort!

It feels good to be back, despite the rain which is keeping me inside and the fact that I am still using the old laptop, hope to have some news from my pc today, good (pictures rescued)or bad, I am ready for everything!  I missed the blogging world so I used my reader a couple of times, thanks to you all: the ones with full feeds ;)

melting point

When Macro Monday meets Ruby Tuesday

UPDATE after the 10th comment: I will be on forced blogging hiatus, as my pc caught a mean virus and my technical help will be available next week... I am going to miss you...wish me luck!!

cactus flower

Macro Monday  ♫♫  Mellow Yellow Monday

Not the typical Chilean flower but beautiful nonetheless! seen in Valparaiso, the harbor. A taste of  Chilean summer just for you.

sunflower

Macro Monday*** Mellow Yellow Monday

beach flora

Macro Monday

I will formally introduce it to you once the blogosphere tells me the official names! seen last Saturday, close to the Med.

blue petals

Macro Monday ♬ ♬ Blue Monday

Please name this flower!! (see the update below!!) it decorates a central street where I live, it's beautiful to see the blue carpet next to the busy street.

Thankful Update: thanks to the wonderful quilly (I am forever grateful for her botanic help all the time!) I will now remember it is an Agapanthus


Thanks, Thom!!

napkin holder

Macro Monday ♬ ♬ Blue Monday

Update: seen at a small fish restaurant, therefore the pattern...

make a wish

macro monday

I left my heart in the Alps

Not exactly. But I brought pictures of  Alpine heart decorations home with me!

Macro Monday is hosted by Lisa

maritime

One of my favorite bottle stoppers. Because it came from 

dear people years ago, all the way from Michigan.

Macro Monday is hosted by Lisa

camouflage

This little guy is about 4 cms/1.5 inches "big". He was scared to see me in my own garden. They always move very quickly and it wasn't easy to have his picture taken.To my surprise: he even jumped! I didn't know they could do this, I think he has been watching the squirrels... He was a lovely break while working in the garden, which mainly meant watching Mr Mar cutting and stacking up logs  (from the fallen pine trees in late January) for our fireplace.

Macro Monday is hosted by Lisa

Weekend Snapshot is hosted by  WS

clouds and candles

I love to look at clouds to find hidden faces or figures. That's why this one over the Med had my attention this past weekend... 

I got this scented candle from a friend, it's actually a Xmas scent  but I haven't been home to enjoy it. This is what was left of it last night, after watching the first episode of "The Mentalist" on German television. Home alone, as Mr Mar is shortly gone on business. This was a soothing sight (and perfume!)

Macro Monday is hosted by Lisa

Weekend Snapshot is hosted by ... WS!

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