Fauna of Singapore – At the Singapore Zoo and deep within it – The Fragile Forest And the beauty this week on Nature’s Trail in Singapore
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This Week on Nature’s Trail
The beauty of nature was everywhere in Singapore this week. To be part of God’s nature and with family. A New Year’s Blessing!
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On The Trail
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The Thousand Turtle Mountain, Liming, Yunnan
We climbed up the Thousand Turtle Mountain in the district of pastoral Liming, on a late and wet afternoon after several hours’ drive from Lijiang, Yunnan in late 2009. After our guide selected a live fowl for a home-cooked lunch (& dinner), we set off for this beautiful mountain the resembled the back of a thousand turtles at its peak.…
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Tsukiji, Tsujii, and Resilience
This is the fish market at Tsukiji, Tokyo, the busiest fish market in the world. The highly specialised world of the fish traders and their chefs are also featured as a revealing side-story in the documentary on Jiro Ono (Jiro Dreams of Sushi, 2011, David Gelb, Magnolia). Here, there is the unmistakeable scent of the pride…
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Nature’s Savage Beauty – the coldest day in Pittsburgh
This picture was taken through the windows of the staff lounge at the hospital where I worked in the burns intensive care unit in December 1993. The beauty of winter, seen through the placid landscape of white roofs and steamy chimneys, is savaged by Man’s need to keep warm and the terrible unexpected fires that sweep through homes with unattended kerosene…
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The Clearing – Tomas Tranströmer
“Deep in the forest there’s an unexpected clearing that can be reached only by someone who has lost his way.” (Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015); Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, 2011)
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Lichens at MacRitchie
Nature is celebrated as much by its companions as it is by the featured. In these series of sunlit moments, at the boardwalks of MacRitchie reservoir in central Singapore, the beauty of the simple lichen is revealed.
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The Gathering Storm
Can you not feel the electricity in the air, as we ride into the gathering storm, and see the haunting beauty of the sharp relief, like a knife’s edge set against a soft grey flannel? (January 2015, the East Coast Parkway, Singapore).
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Bauhinia Rhapsody IV
(Week 18) The first flowers. And more. The plant looks very jaded, and a little worn around the edges. Like a weary soul whose time has come to journey beyond adolescence. (Week 6) The mysterious miracle of growth and fruitfulness Another two weeks has passed. Now, there are these giant steps towards starting up the…