It was time for me to change some of the flowers on the balcony. Many of the one I bought before I left for Sweden during summer did not make it.
Most of the new plants are geranium. They are not as big as the ones that I can find back home, but they seem to be very durable.
The afternoon sun shines into the balcony very low at this time of the year. But it is still over 30 degrees in the middle of the day. A bit too much for this time of the year I think.
Today Melissas driver Masen helped me to bargain some roses at the traffic lights. They came in two sizes and look really great together. 
By the way, if you wounder how I can get the roses to spread so nicely in a rather wide vase. Here comes the tip.
Take some tape and make a square pattern over the opening. Then you can arrange flowers in the holes and the tape will be invisible.
No we have a nice, green corner on the balcony, it's where the sun shines in the early morning!
I bought four different kind of roses. They were very cheap, and the quality was not perfect. But I have never grown roses before, so I will try with these first.
I’m trying to develop my way of taking photos. We bought a new camera before Christmas and I have still not learned all different possibilities with it. And I’m too lazy to read the manual!
Tomorrow it’s Valentine’s Day and I want to give this rose back to the one who gave the real one to me two weeks ago!
The black iris is Jordan’s national flower and it will bloom in April. It’s very unusual and rare and not many people have seen it in real. But you can find it in paintings or as here as a sculpture.The colour is not really black more very dark purple they say. You can also find lighter shades.
My quilting group is going to make a quilt with black iris on. We are going to sell it in a big bazaar in the beginning of May. The money they get from the bazaar will go to rebuild Gaza. 
We are trying to find patterns that will look like an iris and we have found many to choose between. 
Some of the women dye the fabrics by themselves. And the colours turns out to be very nice and in many shades.
I found our small Christmas decoration things from Egypt. They are made of camel boons and are very charming. You can hardly see that the angel is an angel! Together with some red ribbons it looks rather Christmas like.
I made coffee to Bo 4.30 this morning because he went to Beirut with the first morning flight. Well, I went back to bed for a couple of hours ….Hope he could sleep some minutes on the plane.
I haven’t bought many flowers since we moved to Jordan. But yesterday I strongly felt it was time for it. 
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