The water hyacinth has opened, originally uploaded by malyousif. I got three water hyacinths yesterday for the pond, as well as a top-up of the butterfly plant and a little dogweed to provide shade for the fish especially now that the temperature in Bahrain is on the increase, and to add colour and texture to …
What the heck, iPhoto can output movies of slideshows you create so I thought I’d select 52 pictures I took this morning and put them in a movie file, add a nice title from iMovie, plonk a soundtrack and upload the result to my YouTube channel. Hope you enjoy.
Cactus Flower, originally uploaded by malyousif. The last time this cactus flowered was almost exactly a year ago! It’s a lot bigger now obviously, but is just as pretty, if not more. It flowered only today. However, as there are a bunch of buds on this and it’s another cactus like it in the opposite …
Man it’s getting rather hot. The downpour last night was something to experience this late in April too, I can’t remember if it rained this late in the year for a very long time. I do remember last year they did have rain during the F1, but last year it was done in March, maybe …
Desert Rose, originally uploaded by malyousif. Again, this one is one of my favourite plants. I’ve had this particular one for about a year now and all it did is grow its weird branches up to twice what it was when I got it. It never flowered though. This bloom is the very first I’ve …