Lotus flower

One afternoon when the sun
tired of the rain in the morning
made an appearance
to shine on a lotus flower beautifying
the backyard of a friend's garden
and I was so lucky to be invited
to enjoy this bloom before it
bade farewell the next day.

Hortpark flowers on a bag

I bought a recycled carrier bag from the Hortpark office some time ago. It was simple with green outline of what I thought were bunches of flowers. It cost only $2 and I thought it would make a nice gift for friends whom I have not seen in a while. Today I decided to take a better look at the design on the front of the bag and then it dawned on me that I could actually fill in the outlines with some fabric paints. I started enthusiastically for the outlines looked like there were many flowers that I could paint on. After some time of dabbing yellow paint on what I thought were petals I realised that they were not petals but leaves. By the time I finished 2 hours later, I have managed to transform the outline into a picture of a frangipani tree. These are the flowers for today!

Flowers in Kukup

Kukup is a fishing village that is about 50 kilometers from Singapore. It was there that I saw these flowers.

Hortpark blooms

It is raining everywhere and the rains in China and Taiwan have brought misery and disaster to people in those countries. We have rain here, more than what is usual at this time of the year. We have to be thankful that apart from the freak floods in Orchard Road last week, the rains have brought about fresher air and thriving vegetation. Today, Kentridge Park and the Hortpark were alive with the calls of kingfishers and we saw two brilliant blue kingfishers, a mother bubul teaching her two young ones to fly and a few other birds that we heard but did not see. There were many butterflies and we saw two or three beautiful ones. Of all days, I left my camera at home. Luckily I had a 5megapixel handphone camera and at least, I have some memories of the flowers I saw today.

These trees have always had red leaves at the top. Today, instead of the familiar red leaves, there were these flowers.

The ever-blooming Rangoon Creeper vines draping over the fences at the back entrance of the Hortpark.

I have seen red, pink, white and yellow flowers of the hibiscus mutabilis plants but not flowers of this colour.Yellow Pagoda flowers.

Wolfe's Vine

Curcuma ginger flowers.

Not a boom microphone but the fruit or was it the flower of the breadfruit tree.

The giant hibiscus flower that looks like it has the power to receive radio signals.

Flowers for a friend in Japan

The weather is rainy these days but today was cool and breezy with threats of heavy downpour in the morning not materialising and instead giving way to a cool afternoon with the sun behind clouds most of the time - a great day for a walk in the park. I have not seen nice flowers in for long time till now. These flowers are for my friend in Japan who tells me that Hydrangeas are in bloom where she lives.

Plumeria(frangipani)

Bauhinia Kokiana

Strophanthus preussii

Xanthostemon youngii (Red Penda)

Pigeon Orchids

I do not see these blooms often. When I saw them in the past, they were high above my head with one or two sprigs of flowers that were not easy to photograph. This time, at Labrador Park, I saw them and the best thing was that they were close enough to be touched. These are not shots that I really like. White flowers are not easy to photograph with point-and-shoot cameras and the results are often disappointing.