Day 1: Journey from Haneda to Lake Kawaguchiko, taking in the Mt Kachi Kachi Ropeway & the walking the budding hydrangea trail down to the lake. Day 2: Fuji Shibazakura Festival by Lake Motosu & the Fugaku Wind Caves Inhabitants’ lakeside interludes at Kawaguchiko Day 3: Driving the Fuji skyline to Mizugazuka Park and onward…
Hong Kong in May – energy and restlessness moves the city of almost 8 million. Never a dull moment. Travels in Hong Kong in May, based in Wan Chai, worked at the Convention Centre, visiting Kowloon, Mong Kok, and the waterfront on both sides of Hong Kong Harbour. The admirable can-do spirit of the Hong…
With the force of lightning, the lushness of last Easters’ bamboo grove gave way to skeletal sticks and stems, kept barely alive by sporadic offerings of green shoots and leafy grass. Yet, here too are signs of the omnipresence of life and family. Against the bare morning sky, the bird-pairs of this Easter has given…
These were the gardens of betrayal, but also the gardens of redemption and resurrection “they went to a place which was called Gethsemane” (Mk 14:32), “across the Kidron valley, where there was a garden”(John 18:1) “In the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb where no one…
The Donkey When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will; Starve,…
Even in tropical Singapore, spring is in the air as the garden bursts into colour and light. The light is especially beautiful in the mid-morning, while the occasional thunderstorm brings wet reprieve and a glossy sheen onto the Heliconias. (Lumix GX85 & Panasonic 14-140mm lens)
These are the pictures of a young bulbul chirping on our Peacock tree (right) with the mother looking anxiously on (left) . Can we trace them back to their lineage from a year ago? The Yellow-vented Bulbuls (Pycnonotus goiavier) has revisited our home, after we spotted the species laying their eggs almost year ago. This…
The Yellow-vented Bulbuls (Pycnonotus goiavier) has revisited our home, after we spotted the species laying their eggs almost year ago. This is probably an offspring, fluffier, more rounded, with hints of a muddy yellow now re-nesting in our neighbourhood. (Lumix GX85; F5.6 1/160 iso 400; Olympus Zuiko 40-150 mm, 2017)
