I have printed these photos in the 8R size. Same as the previous post, they are 10 years old as well. All these flowers are from my garden.

The first picture above is the flower of a type of “LuoDiShengGen” (in Chinese) or Kalanchoe pinnata (scientific name). This plants can be propogated using its leaves, because the root will grow from its leave as what it means in its Chinese name.

I took the pot from the garden into the living room and swithed off all the lights before I took this photo to produce the dark background. And I use the touch light as the light source and to control the angle of the light.

I’m not sure about this flower’s scientific name, but in Chinese we called it “HuoQiuHua”, it means “fire ball flower”. Same as the above picture, the light source is from the touch light to produce the controlled black background. The light from the touch light is not perfect, and it has produced the reddish colour effect in this photo.

This rose was taken outdoor.

How nice if the rose can stay alive forever and produce nice smell forever. But as we all know it’s not possible, we can only keep its image using photo, and remember its fragrance using our imagination. And we may also wait for the new flowers to bloom after the fragrance of the old one’s has gone, its colour has faded, and the whole thing has dried.

One of our dream (SiewPeng and Colin’s dream) is to have a garden that is full of roses and jasmine, and we can smell the nice fragrant of the flowers everywhere in the garden throughout the year. With this idea, we hope that before the old flowers have gone, the new ones must begin to bloom, in order to make sure that the cycle continues.

Actually we may notice that many things in our life is in the state of continuaty but actually it is appearing and disappearing, come and go… I have just heard a word from Master JingKong today that says, our happiness is not the real happiness, it is only a condition where the sadness has temporary stopped. Just like we feel full is because we are temporary not hungry but not actually full… …