Nature month at Sunday Shutterbugs

I've been meaning to take nature pictures for this month's challenge at Sunday Shutterbugs for a couple of weeks already, and it would have been so easy to just go out and do it in the garden, but I wanted sth different this time. Yesterday we went to visit Fort George, an old British Fort overlooking Port of Spain, and it was the perfect chance. My first pic is one of a plant similar to grass and the view of the city centre and the sea. 

The other two pics are from a tree we saw at Fort George. It is called calabasa, which is very similar to our word for pumpkin in Argentina (calabaza). I found this to be such an interesting tree to represent nature, lots of different shades of green, tiny plants growing from the trunk and branches, and those amazing fruits!!!!!!!!!! Love the trees around here, they are just amazing!

I was planning to take pics for the Let's Photograph challenge as well, but forgot I had to take two pics of each object, a good one and bad one, so will have to work on that another day!

Red close-ups

I've been playing a little with my camera this afternoon. Debby has started a great photo group with tips and challenges at Let's Scrap. The challenge this week was getting closer - using the macro funtion. Also, Sunday Shutterbugs had a red colour challenge, so I chose red flowers in my garden as the subject of my first two pics. The third one, the one I like most, is the stem of a cactus-like plant in our front yard. 

Barbados

Hi, I am back from a gorgeous long weekend we spent in Barbados. After the car crash, and the awful things that have been going on around so many of our friends in Libya, we really needed some relaxation, and Barbados (less than an our away) looked like the right place. It was! Te beach is great, the island is beautiful, and the sea breeze makes the weather perfect! Here are a few pics:

Taking a walk after breakfast. This is my Aleida's Challenge pic for February. 

Ready for the beach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And this is a photo I took for the Sunday Shutterbugs' January theme: shapes. I loved the shape of the things inside the flower the bee is feeding from (sorry, lack the word for them!), they are all shaped like tiny bottles. Just like bottles of honey! Maybe you can see them better here:

And, yes, I do realize we are in March already, but I read some older Sunday Shutterbugs post and didn't see the date, so I kept looking for shapes!!!