This is the colour when it is ripe.

This fruit is called Pomegranate in English, or ”Shi2Liu2″ in Chinese.  There are a lot of seeds inside, each seed is surround by its juice.  The way we eat this fruit is just to put the seeds in our mouth, bite the seed to squeeze the juice out with our tongue or teeth and take the juice.  Then you have to spit out the seeds and discard them.  I don’t think anyone will swallow the seeds.  The juice taste very sour and the seed is hard.

This is the fruit’s colour when it is yet to ripe.

Recently this tree produces a lot of “Shi2Liu2″ in our garden.  but all of their sizes are quite small compare to those sold in the market.

Do you know that this tree can become a bonsai if you control its height and shape?  I have read a book about miniature bonsai.  It can become a miniature bonsai which only less than 10 cm in height and still can produce fruit.  It looks very nice when it produce small fruit in bonsai shape.

According to [Wikipedia, pomegranate is cultivated in US for juice product.  It provides 16% of an adult’s daily vitamin C requirement per 100 ml serving.  Its juice can reduce heart disease; its seed oil was effective against proliferation of breast cancer cells in vitro.  The juice may also have antiviral and antibacterial effects against dental plaque.]

But from another source which I have forgotten where, it says that we shouldn’t eat too much because it will add colour to our teeth.

Not everybody likes to eat pomegranate.  Everybody have different sense, feeling and interpretation about certain things.  Just like the same dishes on the dining table, you may say that it’s too salty but I may not think so.  You may taste it too sweet but I say it’s not sweet enough.  Everybody experienced this before.  It proved that everybody has different sensitivity of senses. 

I always have a question in my mind.  For each same colour that we called or see, does it reflect exactly the same colour in everybody’s brain?  From we were kids, the definition of each colour is taught but there is no way to see how other people see this colour and interpret the colour in their mind.  Others may get the different colour but still define it as the same colour name.

For example, the red colour of the flower that reach your mind through your eyes, and the same things that reach my mind through my eyes may be different, but we all call it red.  The name and the thing are the same but what we get is different.

What I can tell myself from my logic is, human from close races have similar senses, and different races have a bit different interpretation of senses.  Animal will have a big different from human.  How to prove it? Do you notice that different races has different taste of food, they like different type of colours as well?  You see what an animal eat compare to human?

Sense :- sensitivity, interpretation & preference. 
Let’s the scientist prove it.

When looking at this new shoots, it tells me that every new day is a good day.  It gives new hope and we should catch this new opportunity to accomplish our mission.  I always like to see new shoots of any plants.  The plants tell us that it’s going to start their new lifes, new generations, and new journey.  It has forgotten about its pass, just concentrate on what is going to happen now and the future.

Do not let what happened in the pass to stop us from moving forward.  We supposed to move faster than before because we have learned how to avoid and eliminate the obstacles.

If yesterday were not a good day
today should be a good day
if we can clear the rubbish in our mind

If yesterday were a good day
today should be a better day
if we have a stronger will to reach our destination.

I’m sure if the PC you are using now is running slow or something is not right, you will restart your PC to let everything back to normal.  We may take the wrong path in a middle of a day, and if this is the case, we can just restart our day immediately by changing our mindset and controlling of our emotion.  This plant has been cut to eliminate the old branches which didn’t look nice, and it produces 4 shoots.

These caterpillars are found in our garden on the willow tree.  There were more than 5 in a group and all eating the willow leaves.  They were crawling slowly on the willow leaves.  At anytime, any one of the caterpillars may be falling down to the ground.

It happened.  When a breeze came, one of the caterpillars was blown into the air.  Surprisingly instead of falling onto the ground, it was hanging in the air.  First I thought there was a spider web.  I was not sure either the caterpillar was lucky.  It may get lucky if it only fell onto the grass below the willow tree, otherwise it may become the food of the spider.  While the breeze was blowing, the catepillar was swinging around on the stiky spider web which disallow me to take its closed-up photo.

Both are not the case.  After the short while, while the breeze stopped or getting weaker, the caterpillar started to move itself.  It climbed up through a vertical silk line and reached the willows leave, and start eating again.  Amazing!!!  It was not the spider web but it’s its own silk.  It was clever, had prepared and getting ready for the bad environment.

The breeze attacked the caterpillar again, I witnessed the caterpillar climbing up again using the different vertical line.  Now I have a stronger fact that the silk was produced by itself although I can’t see the caterpillar silk.  The silk was too thin, and I did not want to hurt it by touching its silk.

The destiny is in our hands.  Instead of letting the environment make changes to us, why not let us take the initiative to improve this environment.  Every entity in this universal have their rights and abilities to protect themselves, and blend themselves into this mother nature.