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I noticed a new flower in my garden this rainy Sunday morning: a yellow tropical Iris. It lasts only one day.
Very tiny flower that lasts only one day.
The "Damn Hot and Damn Wet" season has been damn wet this year. The banana trees are in full bloom. Like this one.
I do not seem to be able to walk by my Lotus jars without taking a photograph. They are still so very amazing to me. I have a million photos of the Lotus Blossom. Why not?
Yep, I celebrated my 5th Cycle (60th birthday) on October 10, 2010 (10/10/10), a day I have been anticipating since my 10th birthday (10 on October 10th). It was a wonderful day spent with family and friends at the Rang Mahal restaurant atop the Rembrandt Hotel in Bangkok.
Yep, you guessed it: it's 10:10:10 on 10/10/10 . . . . a rare moment.
With my wonderful wife, Onchittra, and her brother Vechai's family.
The whole group of family and friends at the Rang Mahal, one of my favorite restaurants in Bangkok.
The table. If you can imagine a five star Indian BUFFET, then you understand the attraction of the Rang Mahal . . . .
The Birthday Boy and Bangkok on 10/10/10.
A fun thing to do in Bangkok when friends visit is to take a long-tail boat tour of the Bangkok klongs (canals).
I am just back from a three day week-end in Singapore, a city I lived in during 1988.
They have a knack for organizational ideas in Singapore . . . not all of them are winners across the genders.
I came for the food and photography. Here I am in front of the Hua Yu Wee seafood palace. It doesn't look like much . . . but . . . . . .
. . . the chili crab was from heaven. Devine!
It was also Moon Cake Festival time in Singapore.
Moon cake comes in all kinds of flavors, fillings, and types.
Part of the fascination with moon cakes are the boxes they come in . . . the boxes scream, "Special!"
The boxes are often very beautiful.
We brought along an extra suitcase along just so we could bring back the very best moon cake available in Singapore for family and friends back in Bangkok (where, my wife says, the moon cake is inferior).
Singapore is also known as the Garden City: every square foot of it is gardened, tended, trimmed, and mowed. The flowers are fantastic.
The ubiquitous tropical Bird of Paradise is to be seen everywhere.
Even the wilting and drying buds of the Bird of Paradise are beautiful.
Actual living grasshoppers are a testimony to "not too much" chemical insecticides.
A tiny orange world on a hedge row.
These flowers were so very tiny.
It is nearing the end of the Wet Season here in Bangkok, so the garden is alive with new growth!
Such shapes!
An unfurling of redgreen.