Flowers of the Algarve – 1
A Pilgrim’s ‘Lockdown’ Perspective

A delicate, silken beauty

Ruffled elegance

Double Happy

A sad association with the deaths in Flanders’ fields burdens this beauty

Art in the grass

Tavira temptress that looks ready to spring a trap

Bearing a hint of the golden corona to come

Beauty contestants 1 . . .

Beauty contestants 2 . . .

Cactus flower and defences

And its spines say – insects only

Cardinal’s Hats
Coastal Plants

An awesome foursome

Beauteous innovation

Rugged and hardy variants of their inland sisters

Their beauty a surprise

Their tenacity is legend

While at our very feet, clinging to the rugged windswept headland

Gold among the driftwood

Saline plants defy the tides

Hardy salt plant with defences