{White Bougainvillea}

When we were in Florida at the Bok Tower Gardens in May, we did buy us a White Bougainvillea at the gift shop.
A very neat way for keeping pot plants outdoors, to be picked up by customers and paid for inside the gift shop. 

Such beautiful blossoms...

This is the entire plant inside its new pot on our patio.

Its flowers hang kind of upside down...

The above two photos show even a little greenish flower because it is old and it was not that sunny.

But 13 days later in full sunshine with new blossoms, it looks like this!

This photo shows the same blossom.

The first photo (top) has been made one week after these last two photos and it shows an even whiter blossom.

Don't you love these white beauties?

Related link:
{Bok Tower in Lake Wales, Florida} | previous post by me

{1950s French Camille Tharaud Limoges Lampe Berger with Red Roses}

Some of you may not yet know that I actually do have an on line Boutique where I sell mainly French Vintage and Antique Gifts. Yes, I do ship WORLDWIDE!
So here is another treasure found in France for you. A lovely 1950s Camille Tharaud Limoges Lampe Berger with Red Roses! It is in a perfect ORIGINAL condition. No new catalytic but still its original one. Very hard to find any of these.

Lovely Limoges Lampe Berger, which is available at my on line Boutique Mariette's Back to Basics

Photo from previous day, right before a sudden thunderstorm... Two roses from our garden but next day one was too far gone already.

With such a beautiful hand painted Limoges Lampe Berger you can have Red Roses year-round!
Camille Tharaud 1878-1956 was the inventor of the high fired porcelain; up to 1400°C.
This rare high quality porcelain sells often at extreme high prices like here at 1stdibs (click it)

Shown here is the back side with Red Roses painted on.

Our only rose blooming was not a red one...

Without the decorative brass cap, this lamp is 16 cm high or 6.3 inch.

Here you can see all its details, a perfect gold band around the foot.

Lampe Berger being embossed on its original brass neck.

And what is quite rare; its original CATALYTIC!

Really in pristine Museum Quality as you can see...

The markings on the bottom: Camille Tharaud Limoges Lampe Berger and made in France...

Sold out...

You can see this very lamp in exact the same condition, same cap as well, in the book: Lampes Berger A Century of History by Gérald Vilcocq on page 204, 3rd from the right... Find link below to a previous post where I show this book.

Only in France I did find this very same Lampe Berger with Red Roses at Souvenirs-d'Autrefois just click this link.

However, theirs is shown with a different cap and a new catalytic...

Related links:

BERGERMANIA | a French website with antique and vintage Lampes Berger

{Lampes Berger 1898 - 1998 A Century of History} | previous post by me showing you the book

{My Private Lampes Berger Collection + Boutique Items} | previous post by me

Air Diagnostic | learn about Lampe Berger

{LIVE IN AIR YOU LOVE} | previous post by me showing you a video about how to use Lampe Berger

{Ebony Jewelwing}

With our new camera I was intrigued by a lot of Ebony Jewelwing flying near our creek...
But how difficult it is to capture them!
When I was trying to capture the more colorful male up close this afternoon, I had to give up...
This makes me even more admire the excellent photos that Noushka takes from Dragonflies.
She is an excellent photographer, just have a look at her 1000 PATTES or 1000 TRACKS.
So below is what I got to share with you.

This is a male but I could not get his body clearly. 

LOVE their face!

The female with the white spots on her wings.

Again a female...

A male, resting on an Orontium Aquaticum in the creek

Same Ebony Jewelwing male...

Related link:

Calopteryx maculata Ebony Jewelwing as seen on Bug Guide

{Our Backyard Wildlife HABITAT Certificate from August 1997} | showing our creek with the Orontium Aquaticum