Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. – Paul Engle

I could write a thousand words about this photo but I won’t. I’m leaving it all to your interpretation.

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A post for Unique Exposure’s Delicate Challenge and Today’s Flowers.

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(May 2010)

Starting anew for Today’s Flowers.

I may have posted this photo before but hopefully not for Today’s flowers which I normally post on my city daily blog. I’m not sure what these small flowers are but as I like naming flowers I don’t know the name of they are exactly how the title says….small rose-like the size of my thumb…but they do not grow on bushes rather on trees.

This photo was taken last summer and since it’s winter I won’t be seeing them soon.  Thanks to the photos that serves as a reminder of beauty that we sometimes pass by everyday without giving much notice.

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Join us:

(Hibiscus schizopetalus)
(Sentosa, Singapore 06-09)

When we were kids, we used to play with this flower, no, that would be the leaves actually. We would make soapy stuff from them and add a little powder detergent to make bubbles!

I only knew that they are from the hibiscus family (gumamela as we call them) now, I have learned that the most common names would be Japanese Lantern, Coral Hibiscus and Fringed Rosemallow.

Since we visited the Butterfly garden, butterflies thrive along with the flowers.

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Not one of Flora’s brilliant race
A form more perfect can display;
Art could not feign more simple grace
Nor Nature take a line away…

The tulip’s petals shine in dew,
All beautiful, but none alike.
- James Montgomery, On Planting a Tulip-Root

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9 Sept 2004

Sometime ago I posted my daughter’s photo holding a blue gerbera for this meme, Today’s Flowers. Today, I am posting photos of my two boys when they were younger and when in their age, holding a flower is not branded as ‘for girls only.’

First photo was of my older son, he’s 5 years plus now. I took this shot after the photosession of his sister, when she threw the yellow gerbera, then little boy picked it up and curiously looked into it. That’s how I got this shot…

Below is a photo of my youngest when he was about 6 months old. This was the time when he was teething, naturally whatever he gets ahold of is considered ‘food,’ the blue gerbera was no exception.

13 Aug 06

Bodyaches should not stop you from bending down and clicking your camera from the children’s eye level. You’ve read it before and here you’ll read it again. Get down on your knees or flat on your stomach if need be to get a shot their eye level…this rule could be broken though! =D

Don’t be cheap

Take as many clicks as possible, after all you have a big space to save on If not, buy lots of memory sticks, sd cards, flash cards so you don’t miss 1001 expressions of your precious subject. Surely, when you review your shot, one would always stand out from a series…its easy to pick and then discard what you don’t need…

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I find myself posting flower photos again…Two memes in one post…

These flowers are no exception, Venice’s architecture and culture are a wonderful sight, so are the flowers!

I am not sure what the first one is called, though it seems like orange bells, below are petunias.

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