The hope of Spring, even though things fall apart

in #teamsouthafrica5 years ago

With Spring (here in South Africa) comes hope - hope for better days to come, but at the same time knowledge we're going to have to go through some pain to get to those better days. In the words of one of Africa's greatest writers, "Things Fall Apart".

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These pelargoniums, in a planter on our boundary wall with our neighbour, were just looking for an excuse to flower as the weather got warmer.

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Here's a better view of the setup of the flowers and herb pots on the boundary wall.

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And why am I mentioning the boundary wall? Because it's gradually falling over towards our house, thanks to pressure from trees which our neighbours have since had to cut down - the trees themselves and their roots were threatening both the wall and parts of their house. We are going to have to rebuild the boundary wall, and in the short term that will mean taking the pelargoniums away from their lovely spot and keeping them happy somewhere else temporarily.

This crack in the wall started to get bad over the course of the last year.

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And here's a closeup of that crack, so you can see the movement in the wall - what decided us and our neighbours to redo the wall was that the crack kept widening.


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So with the Spring and the lovely Spring flowers, we also have a basic hope...that we'll rebuild the wall before it falls on us!

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good to see you posting again, always like your work, you were on my autovote before, but i thought you stopped blogging.
Keep up the work

Hey, @heyitshaas, nice to see you again! I did stop for a few months - tennis elbow followed by life. But I'm back now and planning to be active on the platform again. Take care of yourself!

That flower is a special shade of pink, very lovely. No matter what there is always hope, I hope that you will accomplish/receive all that you hope for!

Thank you so much, @hope777 - what a lovely wish! And it's built into your name :-)

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