Gardening, biking and photographing fish

We've done some gardening both yesterday and today. The weather has been lovely this weekend. So sunny and quite warm at around 14C. Which is warm for us after winter. Andre mowed the lawn yesterday, first time since before winter. The grass completely stops growing during winter unlike in SA where it only slows down slightly.

We've already got some pretty flowers flowering and expecting more soon.

I think this is a tulip. Not the typical ones like we had last
year, the shape is a little different when it opens up.

Hyacinth

I don't know what this is, we have one in the front garden
and one in the back. It smells really sweet.

Here's a close up of it.

So that was all Saturday afternoon. Saturday evening Andre went to do the first part of his photography course which he enjoyed very much.

photo by Keith Lyall

Watch out for that lion fish!!

This was in a pool. The second part will be in the ocean once it's slightly warmed up.

This morning we went for a bike ride. It was an awesome day. Even sunnier than yesterday. We drove to Henley. It was about a 45 min drive and I can do just over an hour before I need to stretch my legs so we kept going past Henley for a bit before we turned back for a stop in Henley on the way back. We passed another couple along the canal also with a BMW bike and Andre said he thought he recognized them so we turned back. Turns out they were the couple who picked up their bike right before Andre last Saturday. And they're also South African! 

We chatted to them for about an hour, a good long break with some coffee and hot chocolate too, before making our way back home to come and do more gardening.

Back home in our sunny garden I did the weeding in the vegetable patch while Andre made a path between the greenhouse and the veggie patch which now looks very neat.

Me in the veggie patch- a "before" photo of
where Andre's path would be.

And the "after".

We rewarded ourselves the rest of the afternoon with drinks in the sun under the apple tree and ended the weekend with barbecued chicken burgers- our first braai of the season.