Colour

Garden creepers...

Some macros...

Some shots culled from last month.

Purple & White

Soothing purple and white. Beautiful.

Durian & City Boys

The city boy hacking the durian to death trying to get to the flesh. The tantalising aroma taunting him to try with all his might to get to it. The king of fruit refuses to yield, protecting his flesh in thorny skins and stubborn fibres. Amazingly, the city boy did not get hurt.

Ahhh, the old auntie with her scrawny hands came to the rescue, city boy finally gets to enjoy the creamy, sweet, slightly bitter taste from the king of fruits. It was worth it. Each tree bear fruits with differing taste and texture. Definitely not like your RM10 per packet from the hypermarket.

Laksa ?

Birds eye chili.

Curry leaves.

Tamarind, still hanging from the tree. Not yet processed to make the brackish substance you see at the mamak shops.

These are some recent pictures taken around my mothers house. If she's up to it she will collect the tamarind and prepare them to be used in her cooking, most of it will be given away as she can only use so much. Typical of her, she will prepare a lot...

So, chili, curry leaves and tamarind. Basic ingredients for laksa ?

Everyday things...NOT.

All three photos depicts everyday things in their own surrounding, space, habitat or whatever you label them. However, these are definitely not things that you see everyday, especially those trapped in the rythm of life in the concrete jungle.

But that is not the main point of todays post. Mat Salo posted a nice comment that sets me thinking. About turning 40, hitting mid life and reminiscing about lost youth, lost friends and such. How true. In the end, that's all you are left with isn't it ? Memories, experiences and lessons learned (or not). Wealth will make it more comfortable and health we always take for granted. So, what else is there ?

As Alan Parsons sings "where do we go from here; now that all of the childrens growing up; where do we go from here".

Back to the photos, the first is wild flower, its tiny and sometimes can be seen by the roadside. The second is mushroom on the trunk of a dead rubber tree and the third is a polyp (I am guessing), soft coral at low tide.

Green.

Pepper, fern and fungus. Pepper from Linggi, fern from SS5 and the fungus from RRI Sungai Buloh. Odd mix, yet beautiful... to my eye at least.

Fruits.

Bunches of langsat on the tree in Linggi.

Buah delima or pomegrenate from the front lawn of the rented house in SS5.

Belimbing besi budding on its tree at the corner of the old wood fired kitchen in Linggi. I just love the colours and tones of these. Perhaps Doc is right, I may just have to get the 105 VR Macro one of these days. Mat Salo, jom beli sesama....