This picture was taken in a farm in Cabarlah, Australia.  Read my previous post for the details.
          1.  Cabarlah - The Cuckoo Clock Center.
          2.  Cabarlah - The Farm.

Wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day.

First of all, ColinJong.com would like to wish you Happy Chinese New Year & Gong Xi Fa Cai.

We have been very busy since a week before CNY. I have decorated the garden for the vihara few days before the CNY. It took me 3 or 4 evenings. Finally, I have “completed” it before CNY, it’s not really 100% complete, but there will be some upgrade in the near future.

We went to a night wet market to buy many boxes of Mandarin Orange in one of the late evening at about 11:30 pm. We saw these Capsicum there. We seldom eat capsicum, but their colours attracted us. So we bought it.

Since we are vegeterian, different colours in food is very important to make sure we have sufficient nutrients. I have read from a book that says, if we take at least 5 colours in our meal, and change them frequently, we as vegeterians can actually get enough all of the different vitamins and minerals. I will do some research on what vitamins and minerals that were provided by capsicum.

We have bought a bottle of Vegeterian Salad as well. We have been searching for it from so many places and finally we found it. It’s a good idea to make the Capsicum salad.

This is a colourful post in a Chinese Year. ColinJong.com Wish you again to have a colourful and wonderful year and may the year of Rat brings you prosperity, health and longevity.

Succulents - the water-retaining plants that adapted to arid climate or soil conditions.  They store water in their leaves, stems and/or roots.  They are similar to cactus but do not have thorns.

On the same day, from the Cuckoo Clock Center, we continued our journey to a garden farm.  It’s about 25 minutes from the Cuckoo Clock Center.  There were different types of plants and animals there.  Again, I have forgotten the name of this farm, and it’s exactly 5 years ago when I visited there.

I found different types of leaves there. 

This is cherry if I am not mistaken.

Rows of different colours of roses.

Rows of white-leaved small trees.

This is called gourds, - “hollow, dried shell of a fruits in the Cucurbitaceae family of plants of the genus Lagenaria.  Gourds can be used as a number of things, including bowls or bottles. Gourds are also used as resonating chambers on certain musical instruments including the berimbau and many other stringed instruments and drums.  Gourds are also used as a tool for sipping yerba mate by means of a bombilla, in Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, where it is called “cuia” (kOOya). “  - quoted from Wikipedia.

There’s  a big pond for the geese and the sheep.

There’s a small shade for a duck called Arnold.

The duck and ducklings statues are very cute.

The sheeps at somewhere near the big pond were waiting for visitors to feed them.

I believe, the “farm cart” is one of the Australian tradition which can be found in many farms, and is one of the attraction in the farm.  But I don’t think they are still using it because the carts usually look old.

There are direction signs in the farm, and some decoration around it.

All these photos were taken exactly 5 years ago, and the place may look different now.  I wish I have had taken more photos there with a better camera.