~ Five Minutes with Vera ~

Ju-Lyn from Touring my Backyard recently posted a new challenge (although I am not sure if she is actually hosting this!) but I’ve linked to hers anyway. It’s about taking time to capture objects or scenes from different angles, to spend around five minutes looking at it from other perspectives. I generally just snap and dash or just take one or two.

So here you have mine for this week.

This Aloe Vera just gets bigger every year and is a main attraction for honey eaters and bees and wasps. I wasn’t lucky enough to get a honey eater, they are too nervous and fly away when I got too close.

Up close and personal.

The old and new petals with the back of a visitor

Difficult to focus on the flitting wings!

Square Perspectives and Flower of the Day

My Challenges for today!

Two in one again! Square Perspectives from The Life of B by Becky and FOTD by Cee.

Two photos from my garden around a week apart.

This Aloe Vera grows more profusely every year. It needs hardly any care and sits in an almost overturned tub! It is amazing to see it blossom.

An evergreen perennial, it originates from the Arabian Peninsula, but grows wild in tropical, semi-tropical, and arid climates around the world. It is cultivated for agricultural and medicinal uses. Source: Wikipedia

I’m not sure why it grows so well here in Perth, WA in our very dry hot climate.

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