Spring Period Of Revival

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Option three: What is one of your favourite celebrations of the year to enjoy and why. How do you prepare for it, what's involved with the celebration and so on.

Celebration of Life - Spring when the ground soaks up the life giving rain after rumbling thunderstorms roll over sparking new season into being.

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When early rains fall and the sun comes out to shine, the Western Cape veld transforms into splendid sea of colour.... (On my bucket list again!)

Children dress up for Spring Day on the 1st September every year, colourful little dresses for girls with flowers in their hair, casual shorts with floral shirt for boys, or similar (of late this often turns into a cold day when parents quickly re-think clothing).

Some shave their head in anticipation of warmer weather, many pull out braai fires to enjoy an early start to the season. Sounds good to me, we do things on African Time, so anytime between September and December!

Good enough reasons as to why we enjoy this early start, by January we will complain about the heat, Spring the in between season of change we all enjoy.

Reality check! Spring celestial equator is around 22/23 September according to Vernal Equinox of Earth, so we start a bit early!

Natures time to copulate, ensure future generation continues the circle of life. I can watch... can't I? Never too old to learn!

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Millipedes Getting Into the Moment

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Talk About Doing A Tango With All Those Legs

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Rules Of The Day - She Said!

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Blissful Moment Before They Begin

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Pontificating Next Move - What's Next On The Menu?

Bird life, most males transform into smarter outfits to impress ladies, others start building nests vigorously singing, chirping, enticing ladies to change their mind. Chase is on, let the fittest win!

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No Half Job Here - Ripped Out, Start Again

New beginnings over a period of approximately three months, good to celebrate each and every year, not greedy just like a lot, also most enjoyable leading up to the festive season.

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Not Sure What Is Going On Here - Loads Of Frothing That's For Sure!

Have a great time celebrating, whatever your choice, it is yours to make. Thanks for staying for something quirky, quite normal in my book!

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Thought for Today: When the rain falls on the leopard, it wets the spots on his skin but does not wash them off. -
African Proverb

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Hello dear friend @joanstewart good afternoon
I also think that spring is the best season of the year

What a beautiful collection of images you present to us in this opportunity, I have never seen a hundred feet so large and colorful.

I appreciate that you share all this information and the beautiful images

I wish you a beautiful weekend

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Lots of millipedes (Diplopoda) out this year, now is their time to tango.

Humid warm weather these thrive here on the coast in rotting vegetation, here is a link for more information on the ones we have in KwaZulu-Natal Millipedes

Arrived off the beach now drizzling outside after a lovely hour and a half, have a great day.

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Wow! This is an amazing flower. In 2nd & 3rd photography, is it insect? It looks amazing!

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Millipede is an Invertebrate more closely identified with crabs and crayfish if I am not mistaken. Thanks for enjoying and engagement.

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What a beauty spring brings along. I would sure love the sight of girls and boys colorfully dresses.

These images are really outstanding, I kept looking at those flowers over and over again. Never though that millipede could be colorful like that too the only ones I have seen around here are brown in color with their sheen.

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So much to entertain us right in the garden, nature is ever changing and Spring ushers in new life with everything.

Have a brilliant weekend and keep looking under plants, fascinating what one will find.

!PIZZA

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I really love the different colors of the flowers during spring period. It's a right time to capture the real moment just those pictures look so awesome.

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Will be doing a post soon with the flowers that open during this season, we are fortunate in having different varieties open in each season.

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And I will be expecting that from you. Stay safe and have a wonderful weekend.

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I loved this celebration of spring life with some of nature's flirting and more included lol. Have a nice weekend @joanstewart!:)

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Nature definitely is busy, fun to be outdoors watching some amazing events taking place, have a lovely weekend.

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I do love spring as well the colors coming out after a long grey winter

Such beautiful images love those millipedes can’t remember the last time I saw one

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Change is more in birds arriving from the North, different flowers through the months of Spring, all things creepy crawly tend to appear. Very lively before the heat of summer sets in, have a great weekend JJ and thanks for engaging.

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Always a pleasure to visit your posts :)
You to have a good weekend

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Greetings from over the oceans, hopefully not getting too cold there, have a great weekend as well.

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Not as bad as its going to get, but has been around freezing point at sunrise and sunset so not so much fun to go out walking

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One bonus is not having to be up early or arrive home late, now take time when you are ready to go, isn't it nice!

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Ohh yes that is a plus but trying to keep active and get out for walks each day will be a challenge

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Making time before lunch for a brisk walk in your colder conditions, I used to enjoy early morning walks with the dogs when I had the two Ridgebacks, it was safer to walk than it is now.

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Out colours are slowly disappearing, the leaves are falling to the ground, and everything's growing only half a planet away ... always fasinating. I love the Autumn most of the seasons for its colours, but the Spring is much appreciated each year after an always too long and cold Winter.

Beautiful photos, Joan, and these centipedes are always something special. Maybe one day I will find one here and take a photo, but I will need a macro lens because ours are quite small :)


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The orange glow you have in Autumn is special time for photography, Spring the soft meadow flowers we will find three hours away.

Orange fresh leaves appearing here in spring for you.... they will be green soon!
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!LUV to the family...
!BEER for a rainy day!
!PIZZA to chomp on now.

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Each year after a long winter we are longing for the sun and the green - it's always a pleasure to see the first green grass growing through the snow and the first leaves on the trees 😀
Thank you vey much, Joan, wish you a wonderful weekend 🌞


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Once in a lifetime to experience a winter with snow, seeing everything wake up again when warm season arrives... Again not knowing perhaps is what makes us romanticize something we may actually end up not enjoying at all.

!LUV
!BEER

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I enjoy the snow and I love the winter. The white colour is something special, but when the snow is slowly melting everything gets more or less gray and muddy for a couple of weeks. During this time we are longing for the Spring and for the green. I'm sure you would enjoy the cold season just like I do, Joan 😀 although you might freeze a little more ❄️


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One thing I do know is mosquito and flies don't like the cold so I imagine I would be most content enjoying the snow with a BIG fire to keep me warm.

Definitely part of the survival kit for the cold weather is dry red !WINE

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Right, no mosquitoes and no flies in Winter, and in Summer we also can't complain. Of course there are places with more of them, but here not so many 😁


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Higher altitude helps, cold winters chase them away, ideal lifestyle!

Now we have to find similar conditions to keep politicians at bay and swindlers in life 😁

!WINE
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I forgot you have mountains too 😉

Hm, you only need to pay them less with no chance to get more. No side jobs allowed. The bad ones will leave and the good ones who know they are only humans like you and I will stay.

I hope you're having a nice Sunday 🌞


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Ha ha ha, easier said than done! Sheep follow the wolf over here on false promises.

Now I see the North are locking down again, that will happen here as soon as our summer holidays begin making poor, poorer, nothing said yet, just wait and watch!

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You're right, and we have these sheep here too. So I will try to find another solution - not an easy task 🤣

Yep, our 4th lockdown starts tomorrow and I am quite sure it will not be our last one, although the politicians promise something else. From February we are obliged to have a vaccination and I am not sure if this will help either.


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No ones knows fact from fiction anymore, getting outdoors being in the fresh air without a mask is a good start. Irony is how this is being fanned all around the world with similar hype, they not sure about whether the vaccine works or not (from doctors own mouth), tablets now being made which leaves another question open, why inject people. Oh boy this is a rough ride and only the rich are getting richer able to move around.

!PIZZA - Hang in there we still got teeth.
!BEER - to count some sheep later before bed.
!WINE - to make sure I see the sheep and don't miss them.

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So true, quite some people are getting richer through this pandemic, and nobody knows anything. Maybe some do, but they have reaons not to tell and conspiracy theories are all around. Maybe one day we will look back and smile.


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Virus is real of that there is no doubt, losing your head over it is (and jobs) is crazy, crippling countries stopping the world is total madness.

Well they want to 'reset' into new technology making a real mess of everything. Keep smiling, best we can do!

Happy Monday and have a good week!

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Of course this virus is real, but what the countries are doing is mad, just as you say. Not only sometimes it feels like they are testing this solution and if it doesn't work another and hope that one day a solution will work ...

Wishing you also a great day and week 🤗🌞


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Spring is a beautiful season everything is reborn love this season. They are some huge Millipedes never seen anything like that before they look scary.

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Not poisonous, very few are allergic to toxin squirted on you when picking them up, normally I let them be to carry on with life.

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Yes I would leave them alone and let them get on with it they are not my type to interfere with.

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Only time I pick them up is to get them out the home, children grow up with them and normally enjoy making them roll into a tight ball.

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