abc letter V for vase

Sarawak has potteries where they paint traditional dayak designs. A friend went to Sarawak and brought me one. You will see its distinctive patterns. This is one two and half inch tall.

I like this glass vase and the stock flowers.

This plant is also known as the Goddess of Mercy plant. Worshippers of Goddess of Mercy will have a vase of this plant to worship her.

I just like plants.

In Singapore, I experimented with this plant, I cut about two feet long stems of this plant, I had about twenty of them, and grew them in a vase in side my house. Soon shoots grew, and this is the result. There was no need to fertilise the plant.

As it was dengue infestation time, I had to cover the vase with netting to prevent the aedes mosquitoes from laying eggs in the still water. Dengue fever was very serious, and I as the secretary of the gardening club had to set examples of keeping our plants stagnant water free. In NTU, they regularly fogged the campus.


http://abcwednesday-mrsnesbitt.blogspot.co.nz

mondaymellowyellows.

Have a cup of tea with me.


http://mondaymellowyellows.blogspot.com.au/

  
Stay mellow with yellow!

Photohunt: Grin

My niece has a beautiful grin, and my grand nephew's grin is really cute.

Upcoming Themes For Saturday Photo Hunting

grin

http://whistlestopphotohunt.blogspot.co.nz 

Weekend reflection: Private Pool in Australia.

http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com

Thursday Challenge: Duster

Mother was a very creative and hands-on person. When the synthetic raffia string came to the market, she got me to crochet a tube. Then she encased it in a long bamboo pole.  I hooked on lengths of raffia string. When I hooked on about 18 inches, she hammered nails into a  small piece of plank  and the end result was a metal brush. Together we brushed the strings and the end result was a brush like the photo. Nobody taught her how to do it, she just did it.

She used it to sweep spider cobs on the ceiling. We had moved into our brand new house. She didn't want us to dirty or ruin it. This brush was only for the ceiling. It was made or particle board and she was worried we would poke a hole in it.

40 years on, Mum had died 25 years. I saw this brush at the resource room at school. I remember the brush mum and I made. I had a warm fuzzy feeling, I wonder if anyone else made such a brush.

CLEANING (Broom, Mop, Bucket, Vacuum Cleaner, Street Cleaner,...) Thursday Challenge is a place for photographic fun and learning. A theme is announced on this site each week. You may either take a new photograph related in some way to the theme or select one that you have taken previously;

http://www.spunwithtears.com/thursday.html

Monday Yellow: ABC U for Udder/Solanum mammosum/ Nipplefruit,

Solanum mammosum is commonly known as Nipplefruit, or Cow's udder.

The distal end of the fruit's resemblance to a human breast, while the proximal end looks like a cow's udder. 

It is an annual or tender perennial plant in the Solanaceae family, part of the Solanum or nightshade genus, and a relative of the tomato and potato. This poisonous fruit is native to South America, but has been naturalized in the Greater Antilles, Central America and Caribbean.

In Chinese culture it is known as five fingered eggplant(五指茄). In Japan it is known as Fox Face.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_mammosum


It is poisonous, but I was at a local market in Sarawak when I saw them being sold. This photo was taken at the Winter garden of the Auckland Domain.

http://mondaymellowyellows.blogspot.com.au/

  
Stay mellow with yellow!

http://abcwednesday-mrsnesbitt.blogspot.co.nz

National Whale Day 2013

I was in Brisbane when I saw these two.

The first time I was awed by whales  were whale bones in the Sarawak Museum in Kuching.

National Whale Day 2013 - Saturday 01 June

1st June marks IFAW's sixth National Whale Day

What is National Whale Day?

Launched in 2008 by IFAW, National Whale Day is a celebration of the whales and dolphins that migrate to our coastlines annually and Australia's position as a world leader in whale conservation.

National Whale Day provides an opportunity to raise awareness of, and discuss solutions to, the threats facing whales and their environment including commercial whaling, threats posed from noise pollution, climate change, vessel strikes, marine debris and by-catch and entanglement.

National Whale Day 2013

This year’s theme is “The (not so) Silent Threat” and aims to draw attention to the dangers our whales face today from man-made underwater noise pollution.  Noise sources include seismic exploration, sonar technology, marine construction, dredging, seabed drilling and commercial shipping

http://www.ifaw.org/australia/our-work/whales/national-whale-day-2013-saturd-0

http://reducefootprints.blogspot.com/