Santa Rita

Estamos comenzando la estacion seca...todo se torna marron, menos las santa ritas que tapizan el campus.

Saraburi Sunflowers

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. " ~Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers

Apparently, we're not the only visitors...

Glowing flowers

Take 1: I was walking home with a friend after a looooong day at the office....passed by this tree and couldn't resist taking a picture of the flowers all nicely lit up by a street lamp. As I was commenting to my friend, you know you have no life when you go around "smelling the flowers" at night... :)

Take 2: with flash...sometimes less is more....

Destressing Techniques

After a tough week, flower arranging is my "cable a tierra"... in my feeble ikebana-wannabe style (my short-lived ikebana course teacher once commented on one of my (I had hoped!) "ikebana" arrangements: "It ok, but it western. Come, everybody. I show you western way. It very easy!"...and so, culture creeps into everything...even when I was consciously trying to be ikebanaish...sigh...

Flowers fit for dragons...

The simple beauty of a dragon fruit flower...
(If you want to see what the fruit looks like, click here)

Tree on fire...

My favorite flowery tree...(and it also has those wonderful pods!)...at the entrance to the campus. I'd never seen such a profusion of flowery trees as I've seen here in Thailand.

If I were a make-believe-artist....

...I'd make you believe this was an art piece! But since I'm not, I'll post the "real" work of art, as found in nature in the next post.

Hopeful Bee

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. "
Robert Green Ingersoll

Budding Pink

"Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of His unrivall'd pencil."
William Cowper

Filtrado

Offering

Flor tipicamente usada como ofrenda por los budistas

Liquified roses

Bouquet de rosas photoshopeadas :)

Peaceful Sawadee kah from Thailand

All's well...