My very own! Lemon singular, though the tree promises more.
Someone else’s lemons, and washing… 
Marilyn? 
Matching car to house 
You can leave your hat… off
Algarve Cycle Trail 
Gas canisters 
West to east
Bottled gas is often used in Portugal. It was a number of years before our street went over to mains. Till then the gas bottle sat on the doorstep.
Around the roundabout 
the fish leap 
and dive 
and swim away!
Santa Luzia, where I’ve whiled away many an hour. Also on the Algarve Cycle Trail, strewn in places with beautiful osteospernum.
Life in Colour– with Jude. Mostly yellow!
restlessjo 
You live in a really beautiful place, Jo. Gorgeous gallery.
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I often tell myself how lucky I am, Ad. Thanks, darlin! 🙂 🙂
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Beautiful, invigorating, inspiring. Love lemons and anything yellow. They are like an instant joyful sunshine. Lemons reminds me of blessings that we need to appreciate & be thankful for. Take care and stay safe my friend.
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Thanks so much for sharing the sunshine with me 🙂 🙂
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Love yellow and lemons Jo 🙂 Alas our lemon tree does not look like these photos but we have friends with an abundance of lemons so we regularly receive a large bag of them. Blues and yellows are such a pretty combination 🙂
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Ours looked very healthy when we got it, but it lived in a pot for a long time and we’ve just planted it in the ground. Being outstripped by the fig tree at the moment 🙂 🙂
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Ours did reasonably well when we first moved here but then we relocated it to another flower bed when we put our pool in and the poor tree was never the same after that 😦 Our previous cat used to sit under it – she lived to be nearly 19. We’ve kept the lemon tree in her memory but surrounded it with new pots full of flowers and a couple of cumquats to brighten the area up 🙂 🙂
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Nice idea 🙂 🙂
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Those are Gazanias – one of my favourite summer annuals here – only annuals, as we do not have winters conducive to the continued bloom of an African Daisy — nowhere close LOL! But they bloom continuously and make brilliant borders in the main beds.
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I know- same family! Jude pointed it out and I suppose I should have changed it, but thank you! 🙂 🙂
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Those are some truly awesome yellows Jo but I must admit your lonely lemon stole my heart! There’s a children’s storybook waiting to be written about it 😊
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Ooh, that’s a thought! I know a good author or two, Tina 🙂 🙂
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Oh lush, I could do with a few if you can send them over. We have another charity cake day coming up and it seems i’m the lemon drizzle nominee – again!
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One lemon didn’t go very far, Gilly. I have two tiny figs a-growing but they’ll be too late for your cake day. Sorry! 😦 😦
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Good job Waitrose is just around the corner then 🙂
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🙂 🙂
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hi Jo
how fun to have your own lemon tree –
and the flowers near the end of the post were sure wonderful in color, poise, and naturalness
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I’m sitting on the patio having lunch and talking to the plants. My lemon tree needs a little encouragement 🤗💕
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hahah – well hope the lemon tree gets the lift it needs –
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Even better news – I just spotted that there are 2 tiny figs on my fig tree 😁😁💕
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how awesome – mmmmm all natural figs are so healthy for us eh?
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How exciting to have your own lemon(s)!! 😀😀 Ahh … I adore the glittering array of yellows from Portugal, a perfect match to all the blue and just like that it feels like summer and all the joy that come along with it!
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Our estate is primarily white with yellow trims, Annika, and it makes an easy background for that sky. 🙂 🙂 I shall go and talk to my little lemon tree. Whisper a few words of encouragement…
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How could it fail to heed such gentle encouragement!😀 xx
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my favorite color, Jo! bright, happy sunshine color! 🙂
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Yay! Happy Sunday, darlin! 🙂 🙂
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The simple joy of a lemon tree! What a gift. I miss having one.
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It’s probably wasted on me as I don’t make lemon drizzle cake or drink G&T, but I do love having one. 🙂 🙂
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Oooh, G&T. Thanks for that idea, Jo! 🙂
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What a wonderful fruit to have in your garden! Lemon cake, lemon curd, lemon drizzle …. yum!
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It’s just a small tree at the minute, Ju-Lyn, but it’s getting there 🙂 🙂
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How large will the tree grow, Jo? and will that mean you will harvest even more fruit?!!!
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We’ll have to prune it as we only have a patio at the back of the house. It’s about 5 foot at the moment so there’s plenty of scope, and hopefully, yes 🙂 🙂
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This is a lovely collection of yellows, Jo. Our lemon tree is loaded with tiny fruit and hopefully by winter they’ll all be ripening beautifully.
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These are all just from the neighbourhood, Carol. The colours on our estate are yellow and white 🙂 🙂 Thanks, hon!
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Lovely gallery of yellows Jo. There’s nothing quite like popping out to the tree and picking a lemon. I’m thinking of planting a lime as well for my G&T — they’re a horrendous price here most of the time. Makes the gin seem cheap!!
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Funnily enough, I thought I was buying a lime at the time, Su, as lemons are so commonplace here (in a good way 🙂 ) But as it grew I realised I’d got it wrong 😦 But I don’t bear a grudge 🙂
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The last time I thought I’d bought a lime tree it turned out to be a yuzu. It’s taken me a decade to figure out what I’ve got and what to do with them 😂😂
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🙂 🙂
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Love the lemons. Tiling is spectacular in Portugal. I stayed in Porto a couple of years ago, the tiling was spectacular.
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It is, Barbara! We have several examples around our garden, on a small scale. 🙂 🙂 Thanks for your company!
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That hat one does it for me particularly. But they are all a delight.
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The hat one greatly amused me, Meg, but I was wary of the neighbours wondering what I was up to 🙂 🙂 Thanks for bringing a smile to my day.
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Oh, the neighbours!! Mine already think I’m a bit cracked, so I don’t need to look sane.
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An even bigger smile 🙂 🙂
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Nicely done on the lemon from your lemon tree Jo
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Colline! Are you ok? You’ve not been blogging! Good to have you back 🙂 🙂
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Great to see such gorgeous clours, Jon 🙂
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Always cheerful, yellow, Pit 😊💕
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Beautiful shades of yellow, perfect for Spring. 🙂
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Hiya, darlin! How’s life? Prospects of looking ahead… 🙂 🙂
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Good thanks. Happy that there is a plan out of lockdown at last. 🙂
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I do love? yellow! It’s a happy sunshiney color, isn’t it?
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It is, Debbie! It sparkles in the sunshine 🙂 🙂
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