Which Way?

I have come across the intense blue of the Greek sky from my many readings. When I discovered my very blue sky at Cerok Tokun, I could not stop from asking: is mine as blue as that Greek sky?

In fact, I was experimenting again. Trial and error is my other teacher, besides learning in the blogosphere.

I got the next one just because I have forgotten to change the setting of my camera. Since inventions usually happen unintentionally, this unplanned shot turned out to be my favourite.

It had a different look after I decided to turn on the flash. It is sometimes better to have a dim view, the mysterious feeling will at least keep my imagination glowing.

Going through adventures like Indiana Jones's needed him to keep exploring new places, otherwise Indiana Jones is no more Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones did not go back to the same place, because this was at the discretion of the director. I am myself the director.

I went back to the same place again to experiment my new experience. I have lost the intense blue sky, but met my new friend enjoying the winding game.

Yes, every creature enjoys in each different way, my way, his way or her way, but certainly not a no- way.

Greeting the Morning

I have gone hiking after raining days for some times. It is very much warmer this morning with brighter sunlight shadowing the trees along the path. I do not need to climb as in my younger days, and I can reach the top without scraping my knees.

I am not, but look as tall as a tree.

I still keep the same pose after coming out from the jungle, because I see myself more often now. I change from tall to short, go from front to the back. This, at the end, will not change the fact that I am skinny and short.

Shifting from left to right, I am inspired by myself and start to sit by the moss. You are not going to see me now. I need to be alone, and some room to relaxe.

This is another morning that I have a different touch and feel.

The Joy of a Simple Life

Wherever our eyes can see, there are photographs waiting for us to capture. And I do hope my experiment can help to freeze some of the beautiful moments. Anyhow, it is just the joy of a simple life.

If you have ever hiked at Cerok Tokun, you can see these finger-nail-sized little wild flowers are now blooming everywhere. But somehow you may not see them, not because they are so tiny to be attractive, it is only you have been moving too fast.

If this is the reason, let me show you now and you'll go back later to find them.

No adjective is required.

Not only the fashion model who walks on catwalk, this flower is also posing a side view.

And what a crazy world, it is not easy to let go a beauty.

Cheers

That is no reason not to cheer after a long hike, and I would like you to join me. Just sit down, relax yourself, get some fresh air, and you can have my cups. They are not big, but good enough to ease the craving for drink, "whereby nature is a vessel to which mortals drinks for inspiration- Salitype".

I am so cheerful to find myself hiking along with a big kingdom of mushrooms, and the discovery of cup mushrooms tops up the wonder further.

I know, you may say they are a pair of ears instead and trying to listen to our conversation, but I would like to let you know: "I can hear the ladies now. Those ears are just like my husband’s – growing on dead wood"- WiseAcre.

Anyhow, there are still many reasons for us to get cheer up.

Happy working!!

The Story continues

The story does not come to an end when the wheel has unraveled fully. The tip of the fern leaf is now pointing to eternity, a beginning of the future and an end of the past.

This slender rice bug, or Leptocorisa chinensis, has somehow mistakenly thought it is hiding right in the middle of the path to the future, but I rather prefer it is standing at the end of the past.

According to Kathleen Phillips, "Americans eat about 20.5 pounds of rice a year, while globally people annually eat about 126 pounds each. Yet a big bite is also taken by insects in the field every year". Both the adults and nymphs of rice bugs feed on endosperm of rice grains at the milking stage.

While cultural measures and biological control agents are used to control the rice bug population, the meadow grasshoppers, spiders and dragonflies prey on them.

And the flow of food chain continues. The same to the story.