...and I will share some with you today. Always amazing to see the effect that a strong wind has on the clouds.So come and take a short drive with us to the shop and back home, to show you some great views. I don't know the descriptions of the clouds, but you will see that they are forever changing. Cross winds were at play, as usual. The winds can get to crazy speeds here, but we love the wind. It is a free wind, free from all this world's chaos and violence. It is a cleansing wind, bringing in fresh, new air, and as it is now autumn, the winds help the trees to get undressed by blowing their leaves all over the place. It is a wind that blows where it chooses and is not bound by human intervention.

This is a cross post of @papilloncharity/just-something-nice by @papilloncharity.Our wild bird visitors love to eat avocado.

A collection of amazing bird posts to enjoy, and this is a Cape Robin-chat (Cossypha caffra) launch.Several different little birds in here, and they are all precious to see in our garden. I am still homebound with a medical condition, and the doctor will freak if he hears that I sneak out at times, but I spend a lot of time also at home. No work, and no stress, is the order, but I don't call taking photos of birds in the garden with the camera work. The two dating Robins are still on the go, and it's a pleasure to watch their mating sequences.

...and I did not allow him to get away with the loot. Look how he sat grabbing that thin branch with his webbed feet.It is a Cape Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capensis) and they are listed all along our coasts. But this one was not at the coast, as he raids the inland dams and ponds.

I was advised to trim our lemon tree down, and then something happened. You can see that the fruits were not developing anymore.Since last season the lemon tree started to deliver many malformed lemons, way beyond its harvesting season. The fruits were still very big, but the juices inside dried up, and something had to be done about it. Some black aphids also started to collect on the leaves of the tree, and the danger of this type of aphid is that they can not only ruin the tree, but also our garden. So, something drastic had to take place in order to save the tree. A humorous incident also took place, as my wife was helping me, and you will see it below in the post.

The wind decided that it would follow the contours of the mountains and the hills. Amazing to watch how the wind speeds the clouds over the mountains.All of the photos here were taken on the same day from our car window, and the views played out like a movie. I don't know if you have seen something like this before but let me tell you that it was wonderful to see how a cross wind flowed the clouds over the contours of the mountain.