I love wildflowers. Particularly the ones that grow wild and in my garden. My mother always taught us to observe flowers and never pick them as they are too beings like us.

How I wish I had her green fingers and can grow flowers, nothing ever grows in my garden and although I do everything by the book, caterpillars or snails devour my plants.  I would never kill these slow eaters, as they are too God’s creatures.  So I gently throw them over the wall, but they tend to find themselves back in my delicious salad.

As I have always said, Nature wins every time.  If you sit back and listen, there are so many lessons you can get from nature, the way it moves and shakes.  It ambles along works efficiently, and is beautiful.  COVID has caused many of us to suffer from anxiety on steroids.  I have been on that list, from being homebound and terrified, I have found myself slowly getting back to normal.  Venturing out, and starting to live again, and with that my anxiety has improved.  It is not gone, but it is manageable.

The best medicine for me is to get out and take photographs of beautiful things.  That is anything to do with nature really. I wish I lived close to the bush, as I would become a wildlife photographer and spend weeks on safari. But alas, I have responsibilities, family, fur children, and a day job selling the most epic holidays.  I get to each day celebrate our beautiful country by booking lavish vacations to the best places that I love in Africa.

Here are a few sensational flowers that I found along the way recently on a trip into the country. Some are alien-like, others drop-dead beautiful but most are such a gift to us from God to remind us it’s going to be okay.

Enjoy my ode to the Almighty God for creating such elegant, beautiful flowers.