In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Victory.”
Although the grandkids, in past week,
At galas, they did go for it,
I fear my shots were rather bleak,
So I have naught to show for it;

R (7) winning backstroke – even though legs have stopped working while she reaches for the edge.

J (4), in pink, won the freestyle too quickly for my shot to be in time.
Much better are the ones I took
Of winning gardens, recently;
Indeed, now that I take a look,
They came out pretty decently.



You may note here, with some surprise
The garden size seems to have grown
Joint first explains the change in size –
For neither won the prize* alone!



*Durban and Coast Horticultural Society ‘Garden of the Year Competition’.
© Colonialist (WordPress) November 2015
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Active septic geranium who plays with words writing fantasy novels and professionally editing, with notes writing classical music, and with riding a mountain bike, horses and dinghies. Recently Indie Publishing has been added to this list.
big congrats on the win. and such lovely, lovely gardens
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Voor hulle vir SA gaan deelneem sal jy jou fotogrfie moet opknap… *koes* Die tuin is darem pragtig.
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Dis seker so!
Twee verskillende tuine, in waarheid.
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Ja maar die tuine staan stil maar die kleingoed beweeg!
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Lovely gardens, the dry hot weather isn’t doing our garden any favours.
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The gardens are beautiful. I would love to spend some time reading quietly in them.
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Or simply taking in all the sights of them – these representing only a tiny portion of the vistas and features.
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You did wonders with your grounds. Really magnificent. You should be justly proud of them, and perhaps even worth opening them up to the public.
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I only wish these two gardens were ours – but they are the pride and joy of two different residents in the Durban and Coast area who entered the competition judged by Association of Garden Judges, of which I am a member.
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Yeah, I got that . . . just trying my hand as some trying humor.
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I shouldda guessed!
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The story of my life with photographs I really wished I’d taken.
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Reminds me of a Paul Gallico character’s ‘proof’, which in photographic terms would work out something like, ‘and here to show you it’s true is a picture of the very spot where the leopard was standing only seconds before!’
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smiles
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Beautiful gardens. What a pleasure it must be to see these winning masterpieces, and how difficult to judge. Well done to your two little grand-fishes. 🙂
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Judging becomes difficult indeed, hence the fact that at the end two different-style gardens came up with equal points and there was no deciding between them.
The fish are having more and more of a whale of a time in the water!
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😀
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