{Flora from our Curaçao Vacation}

Just like to show you a bit more from the flora that we found on the Caribbean Island of Curaçao while on vacation at the Hyatt Regency. We did a lot of walking around the Santa Barbara Plantation, Curaçao ←click it . Around this finest golf course and marina resort community in the Caribbean it is nice hilly. 

Here I am standing in front of one of the many towering Kadushi cactus  ←click it.

The Cereus Repandus ←(click it), better known as the Kasushi cactus is more like a multi-trunk tree with thousands of needles!

Surprisingly hard indeed. Click→ Christoffel Park, Curaçao for more info on this unique cactus.

Observing birds and everything else that came on our path...

I do need some help with identifying this large leafed plant or shrub with its amazing flowers. 

Any hint is appreciated as we are curious!

Thanks to a courteous reader (see comment below) I got a link to Dutch Caribbean Species Register with this photo by Gerard van Buurt showing the Katuna di Seda. Is Papiamento name.

Pieter is showing you here the Acacia dealbata or Silver wattle, Mimosa ←(click it) flowers. Did you notice that this shrub also does have needles? One better watches out for it can really hurt you. 

When we visited the capital of Willemstad, we of course did go also to the floating market. Fresh fruits from Venezuela are being sold every day on the quay. We bought several varieties and here I want you to see the yummy Sweet Calabash, Sweet Cup or Calabasi. Botanical name: Passiflora maliformis. 

A typical fruit for Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands...

We certainly did enjoy this paradise and we will be back!

Have you ever been to the Caribbean?

Tell me do you love exotic fruits as much as we do?

Would love to hear from you...

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{Cotton Ajour Sweater with Lace Effect, knitted by Me}

One more AJOUR sweater in a lace effect pattern, I'd like to show you. This is a 100% cotton one, so it can be worn over a longer period of time. I've slightly altered the pattern at the neckline.

Barty, our 8-year old male cat, is joining me into our garden.

On Monday, April 9, I read Willy's post about Twee breirollen or Two knitting-rolls as it used to be done in the 18th century. Different stitches, even up to one hundred, were done in one length. There were no magazines then. Even some 70 years ago it was done by the students and the stitches were written down in a book. 

Look→ Twee breirollen | click it, for Willy's post about those knitting rolls. 

This knitting history story is also printed on the Ariadne magazine's page, from where I used this pattern.

  Our weeping peach tree wears a protective cuff...

Wish those peach blossoms would stay longer...

Best colors of spring!

Wearing my precious 925 silver rose ring (lost that in April of 2019...)

Detail of the AJOUR with Lace Effect. It was really a joy to knit this out of cotton. 

Answering some readers' question about how I find time to do this, besides everything else, plus blogging... These sweaters were knit 'BB' or Before Blogging!

My neckline is done straight...

Okay, this is only helpful for readers in the Dutch language but it gives each one an idea.

For my MIA Missing In Action over the past four days, I will be catching up with you soon. 

Welcome to all the new followers, I promise to visit you soon.

Today our new modem arrived and we had again Internet. Blogging via iPhone is nearly impossible so I've been very active doing other chores, like doing laundry and ironing.

What is your favorite yarn to knit with; if any?

Hope you have a pleasant mid-week and enjoy reasonable weather too.

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{Introducing the ULTIMATE Rose artist from Château de Fleurs}

For quite a while I've been following and even more so, admiring a lady from the west coast, in Fallbrook, California. Her name is Christie Repasy from the blog Château de Fleurs and the website Christie Repasy Designs ←click it. She surely was a Blogger I Admire! 

Baby Blush, by Christie Repasy... 

Christie has been featured in Romantic Homes ←(click it) and also on the Rachel Ashwell's television show.

One more TV presentation is shown here below.

Just have a look at this HGTV Country Style video

Rose Painter Christie Repasy at her Laguna Beach Cottage

Vintage Rose Study by Christie Repasy

Evette by Christie Repasy...

Don't you just LOVE her real looking painted roses?