(Week 42) The Bauhinias are in fully perennial bloom – and they are joined by a rare flowering of an epiphytic pink phalaenopsis orchid on the adjacent black bamboo (Phyllostachys-nigra)in the garden. A rare beauty and a true blessing, four weeks to Easter Sunday. (Week 18) The first flowers. And more. The plant looks very jaded,…
These pictures were from Lake Shikotsu, Chitose, on the island of Hokkaido, Japan (2013). The most notable part of that evening was the mist that enveloped the lake and its vicinity, rendering the beautiful place hidden, almost deserted, and mysterious. The experience suggests that it is not uncommon that what a place or a person has to offer…
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!
God, an elderly Jesuit once suggested to me, is something like an old carpenter in a small village in Vermont. If you ask the townspeople where to turn to for carpentry work or repairs, they will say, “There’s only one person to call. He does excellent work. He’s careful, he’s precise, he’s conscientious, he’s creative,…
The Pacific Northwest is a beautifully haunting expanse. This collection of national parks, deep waters and waterfronts ferries, bestow upon the traveller and its inhabitants a sense perpetual optimism, rugged individualism, and a vision of endless summer days. From gentile historical inns in the heart of national parks to the leisurely dust-swirl of the roadway motels and their baby-boomer bikers, the…