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MADEIRA - ISLAND OF FLOWERS - JEWEL IN THE MID-ATLANTIC
« on: November 27, 2007, 02:45:40 PM »
Believe it or not I have just spent the entire morning writing an article to be used as a Feature on the Main Page of this wonderful site....and then inadvertently deleted it with one tap of my aged finger. To say I was distraught is an understatement!!!  I haven't the energy or the patience to start again and the muse has gone (along with my tolerance of anybody who helpfully suggests that in future I should 'save' as I go along).
As the images are (and were) ready to post I will now take the easy option and display them all on the Forum. My apologies to members who have not the slightest interest in seeing images from a 'non-alpine' destination, please be so kind as to look away now...and further apologies to those who would prefer a modicum of text to accompany the images, the words are lost in the ether and I haven't the inclination to rewrite them.
I will add a number of links that will lead the inquisitive to more information on this beautiful volcanic island.
There are going to be one hundred images in ten postings....it MIGHT have made a worthy article....!!
Cliff Booker
Behind a camera in Whitworth. Lancashire. England.

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Re: MADEIRA - ISLAND OF FLOWERS - JEWEL IN THE MID-ATLANTIC
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2007, 02:49:58 PM »
Batch two....
Cliff Booker
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Re: MADEIRA - ISLAND OF FLOWERS - JEWEL IN THE MID-ATLANTIC
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2007, 02:53:57 PM »
Batch three.....
Cliff Booker
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Re: MADEIRA - ISLAND OF FLOWERS - JEWEL IN THE MID-ATLANTIC
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2007, 02:57:44 PM »
Batch four.....
Cliff Booker
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Re: MADEIRA - ISLAND OF FLOWERS - JEWEL IN THE MID-ATLANTIC
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2007, 03:02:02 PM »
Batch five....
Cliff Booker
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Re: MADEIRA - ISLAND OF FLOWERS - JEWEL IN THE MID-ATLANTIC
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2007, 03:07:15 PM »
Batch six.....
Cliff Booker
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Re: MADEIRA - ISLAND OF FLOWERS - JEWEL IN THE MID-ATLANTIC
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2007, 03:10:25 PM »
Cliff, your 'dead foliage' in batch four is young 'cones' on a female Japanese Sago Palm (Cycas revoluta).
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« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2007, 03:12:05 PM »
Batch seven....
Cliff Booker
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« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2007, 03:16:02 PM »
Batch eight....
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« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2007, 03:20:20 PM »
Batch nine....
Cliff Booker
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« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2007, 03:27:24 PM »
Final batch....

....And those links that I promised!


Many thanks Anthony for the correction to the 'Dead foliage' title.....one that missed the renaming process I'm afraid.


http://www.montepalace.com/

http://www.madeirahelp.com/madeira_flora

http://www.madeiraguide.com/natureguide/gardens.php

http://www.madeirabotanicalgarden.com/

http://www.madeira-web.com/PagesUK/gardenindex.html


Hope you have enjoyed this brief visit to such a wonderful island?
Cliff Booker
Behind a camera in Whitworth. Lancashire. England.

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Re: MADEIRA - ISLAND OF FLOWERS - JEWEL IN THE MID-ATLANTIC
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2007, 03:34:38 PM »
Have we enjoyed it?  Silly question! Cliff, on a cold wet dark day such as this one I am enduring in Aberdeen today, your photographic journey around Madeira could not have been bettered.
It is heart-breaking that all you efforts to write what would obviously have been a FAB article have gone walkabout in the ether but thank goodness we can enjoy the flowers and scenes. Ta very muchly for this super page  :-* :-* :-*
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« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2007, 03:37:11 PM »
I'm seriously covetting the Japanese ( style or genuine?) statuary in Batch Six... so beautiful, especially the dragon  8)
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« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2007, 03:57:30 PM »
...and just why do we live where we do????
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Re: MADEIRA - ISLAND OF FLOWERS - JEWEL IN THE MID-ATLANTIC
« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2007, 04:03:29 PM »
Ask Jingedales (Michael) Carlo, he lives there but cannot grow proper Alpinse....  ;D
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