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Botanical Gardens

Visited the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne This was the only Polaroid photo I took. I have 4 rolls of film to upload soon 8)

Polaroid Land Automatic 103
Expired Fujifilm FP-100C

0 Comments May 20, 2012

金沢兼六園 (Kenrokuen Garden, Japan)

Kenrokuen Garden is one of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan, along with Kairakuen Garden in Mito City and Korakuen Garden in Okayama City. It is designed for the stroller's pleasure and the name KENROKUEN literally means "garden combining six," referring to its six focal themes of beauty: extensiveness, quiet seclusion, artificial construction, antique elgance, abundant water and wide prospect. It covers an area of twenty-five acres with hills, man-made winding streams, tranquil ponds, and waterfalls.
@Kanazawa, Japan
金沢兼六園

Source: mambo1935

0 Comments May 17, 2012

Flower power to prompt the spring...

No chance for outdoor photos due to the weather so I'll give at least some flowers to you:)

from Little♥Krawler

0 Comments May 14, 2012

Flower of Milkweed

it's flower index is an umbrella shape.
Couldn't remember where it was taken, roadside of some wild place.
thanks to gravitywave
Now I know it is called Milkweed, just a weed :)

more info sent by Amanda ( www.flickr.com/photos/narilia , many thanks)
this specie is "Antelope Horns":
Scientific Name: Asclepias asperula
Definition: One of the Milkweed Family (Asclepiadaceae), Antelope Horns are a low upright to sprawling perenial growing 8-24". Usually several, stout, unbranched stems from base. Flower is about 1" long, a pale, greenish yellow with 5 deep lobes which are erect and cupped. The flowers crowd and cluster at the top of the stem forming a rounded oval at the end of the stem. Plant is usually considered poisonous, yet many medicinal herbs are made from it. Blooms March-November. ( www.lone-star.net/mall/txtrails/wildflowers/flower93.html )
It is the only food source of Monarch caterpillars.
Now i do recall it was taken on a Texas wildflower hunting trip in April, 2001.

quote1:
The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden
because of their simplicity and familiarity.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

quote2:
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ozyman/

0 Comments May 13, 2012

Nature's firework.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

from Miss Chien

0 Comments May 12, 2012

Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora Garden

Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/easytahiticom/5238741364/

0 Comments May 10, 2012

Japanese Garden

A scerene waterfall in the Portland Japanese Garden.

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0 Comments May 09, 2012

Passion Flower

Passion Flower recalls
The agony of His death
Nature thus reflects

Mary Havran

0 Comments May 08, 2012

flower of Beach Naupaka (half-flower) "magoo"

Botanical Name: Scaevola sericea.
Scaevola sericea is sometimes called half-flower.
Naupaka blossoms are not incomplete, they appear to be only half a flower because all the petals are on one side.
The flowers are white or cream colored, often with purple streaks.They have an irregular shape with all all five petals on one side of the flower making them appear to have been torn in half.
There are two types of naupaka.
Mountain naupaka evolved from beach naupaka. Beach naupaka is indigenous to Hawaii and throughout the tropical and subtropical zones of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

There are several Hawaiian legends that tell the origin of the beach and mountain forms of naupaka, both of which produce these unusual half-flowers.

**The Legend of Naupaka**

In one version:
A princess was forbidden to marry her true love, a fisherman, because he was a commoner. As they parted ways forever, she tore a flower in half, giving one half to him and keeping the other half for herself. She then returned to the mountains where her family lived. Broken-hearted, they both cried and planted their halves of the flower. Each half grew and became the two forms of naupaka – the beach naupaka (naupaka kahakai) and the mountain naupaka (naupaka kuahiwi).

Another version:
It is said that two lovers, greatly devoted to each other, came to the attention of the Goddess Pele. Pele found the young man desirable and appeared before him as a beautiful stranger. But no matter what Pele did the lovers remained devoted to each other.

Angered, Pele chased the young man into the mountains, throwing molten lava at him. Pele's sisters witnessed this and to save the young man from a certain death they changed him into the mountain Naupaka. Pele immediately went after the young woman and chased her towards the sea - but again Pele's sisters stepped in and changed the young lover into beach Naupaka.

It is said that if the mountain Naupaka and beach Naupaka flowers are reunited, the two young lovers will be together again.

via 'eindzel

0 Comments May 07, 2012