What Do You See?

What do you see?

What do you want to see?

Tell me what you see...

Do you want to know what I see?

I see no frost.
For frost, please visit Ann.

Coconuts with an Orb

As you would probably notice by now, Clifford appears in many of my photos. He tags along regardless of whether I am taking photos or gardening. I cleverly thought of an idea and brought him a coconut so that I could garden in peace. He was delighted. I had expected him to slowly chew it apart and produce coir as a final product for my garden. He did just that but not before he had some fun with his new ball. He held the coconut with his strong jaw and threw it into the air repeatedly till the coconut hit me. Ouch!!! My advice is, never leave your dog with a coconut while you are gardening.

We love to drink the juice from the tender coconut as it is deliciously sweet and nutritious.

Clifford enjoys the tender coconut flesh while lying on a trampoline.

Pichu, our pom thought we have given him a new potty.

There are endless of possible uses with coconut husks. The scouts use it as a pot to cook their meal. I thought they could be used as a bed border. Both Goldee and Clifford normally chew them apart after some time. I use the coir as mulch.

My neighbour saw them as bowling pins and arranged them into a triangle shape to be knocked down by a coconut ball.

Do you see an orb above? I do not find them eerie. I have posted about orbs several times. Sometimes, I think they are dust, pollens, mosquitoes or moths. I don't know about this one so, I wrote to Diana Cooper who offers explanation on orbs. The following is the reply. 

These are the angels of you together with Archangel Michael – showering the dog and the person in the picture with joy and protection and assisting them both with there next step on the path.

Namaste Carol for Diana Cooper. 

What are your thoughts on orbs?


P.S. :  For photos of coconut flowers and information on other uses of coconuts, please visit Andrea's Site.

Water Spinach

Do you have days when you have just posted something and felt that you have 3 more interesting topics that you wish to blog about?

Do you experience days where no topic nor photos seem appropriate or good enough to be posted?

When one is constipated, usually a high fiber diet with lots of water will get things moving again.

With blogging constipation, I decided that Water Spinach may be the solution.

Water Spinach is a creeping vine.

To the Chinese, it is called Ong Choy.

In Malaysia, we call it Kangkung.

It is also known as Water Morning Glory or Water Convolvulus. 

It's scientific name is Ipomoea Aquatica.

I was hoping to show you some pink water spinach flowers but today there are only white ones.

This one reminds me of a rising star.

Interestingly, giant mushrooms grew amongst the water spinach.

But the colours for this post remain green and white and I thought may be rather boring.

A butterfly tried to liven up the situation but did not brighten up the colours.

This is one of the many lovely seed pods.

The Water Spinach leaves were narrow and elongated when I grew them last year as food for a turtle.

Eventually the new leaves became heart-shaped.
The stink bug is a pest that suck the sap of the leaves.

This tiny metallic green fly prey on smaller insects.

Do you see a minute black spot on the water spinach leaf above?
I believe it is a black lady beetle that feeds on whitefly eggs, scale and spider mites.
It hopped away before I had a chance to focus on it.

Just when I gave up about colours for my Water Spinach topic, this little butterfly came over to rest on its leaf.

I suspect these butterflies prefer the nectar of the Basil flower more than those from the Water Spinach but one of them must heard me calling out for colours.
Thanks to Autumn Belle, these butterflies are called Cycad Blue.

What do you do when you have blogging constipation?
Would it be Wordless?