Waterlily

Waterlily is very beautiful !  I like it.  My feeling of this flower is peaceful and quiet, looking at waterlily, I get peace of mind.  In the morning, dewdrops on the petal, a waterdrop falling down into lake, it makes surge spread out to the shore. It's beauty likes as a virgin wash her hair in the pool. It is amazing!!

Thank you for reading my blog and like my writing.  I would like to say a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year ^^ to all my readers, and apology for long time no new post.  

How’s a beautiful day :)

Ciao, come stai? Io sono cinese a Hong Kong. Sono studente di italiano. Hahaha...

Good morning, everyone! I was in trouble and unhappy, I won’t to write in my blog for long time.  Chinese New Year is passed, spring is arrived in Hong Kong.  I sat by the window at Delifrance in Sheung Wan.  It was raining from 4:30pm. I looked outside the window; many people took an umbrella walking in the street.  Small rain drops were falling down, it dropped on the glass.  Little drops knocked the door, it said “ good days are come and good luck is arrived, everything will be better soon’  I was in the mood to write again. 

 

 

The day after was a sunny day.  I was walking in a garden, there was many butterflies flying between the plants and flowers.  I like butterfly, it likes a girl wear a gorgeous dress dance in the garden.  Butterfly is not only has meaning of the person pursue pleasure or changeable people, but also has beautiful image as a fantastic girl or an angel represents a wonderful story and blessing. 

 

Butterfly (farfalla) is an insect, it has six walking legs, 3 body parts, a pair of antennae, compound eyes, and an exoskeleton. The three body parts are the head, thorax and abdomen. It is flying insect with large scaly wings. The life of a butterfly is marked by four vastly different stages: egg, caterpillar, pupa, and adult. The egg hatches into a caterpillar, which immediately feeds on the leaf of the plant where it has hatched.

 

The caterpillar grows and molts, shedding its exoskeleton when that becomes too small. After four to six molts, the caterpillar pupates or transforms. Butterflies pupate in a chrysalis. Butterflies do not form cocoons. The pupa or chrysalis is soft at first but in about an hour, the shell hardens to protect the growing butterfly within. It’s a beautiful shade of green to help disguise it from predators. The pupa has no eyes, antennae or legs but inside a complete metamorphosis is going on. The mouth changes from what the caterpillar needed to chew milkweed leaves into a straw-like tongue that the butterfly will need to sip nectar from flowers. It grows wings about two weeks.

Finally, the shell bursts open and a butterfly emerges. It has four wings which are tiny, wet and wrinkly, after a couple of hours it can fly. The butterfly pumps body fluid, called hemolymph, into the wings to make them grow big and strong. After the wings have hardened, it’s time to eat! The butterfly flies off in search of its first meal, which it will slurp up through its straw-like tongue or proboscis. After just dining on milkweed, butterflies enjoy a little more variety and take their nectar from several different flowers, making them one of nature’s migratory pollinators.

Butterflies are cold blooded and must depend on their environment for heat. To fly, their body temperature needs to be greater than 75°F. On cooler days they often bask with outstretched wings on a rock or other flat surface to store up heat energy. The dark patterns on many butterfly wings help the insects absorb solar energy. On cloudy, cool, or windy days, most butterflies remain in protected spots. You are likely to spot them in warm, sunny, calm areas where flowering plants can supply the butterflies with nectar.

Butterflies are attracted to flowers, they prefer purple, red, yellow, orange, or pink blossoms; flat-topped or clustered flowers; and short flower tubes. A well-planned butterfly garden has blooming flowers throughout spring, summer, and early autumn. This provides a continuous food source and plants of varying heights to accommodate large and small butterflies. A butterfly-friendly garden contains both adult nectar plants and caterpillar host plants. A few common vegetables also serve as caterpillar host plants. Butterfly gardeners plant extra vegetables, which is enough for them and their caterpillars. As a bonus, butterfly gardens often attract hummingbirds.
 

http://www.flightofthebutterflies.com/life-cycle/

 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/caterpillar-butterfly-metamorphosis-explainer/

 

http://www.butterflyschool.org/student/butterfly.html

 

http://www.nwf.org/How-to-Help/Garden-for-Wildlife/Gardening-Tips/How-to-Attract-Butterflies-to-Your-Garden.aspx

 

http://extension.psu.edu/natural-resources/wildlife/landscaping-for-wildlife/pa-wildlife-8

My Song

I am so sorry of very long time I don’t write anything in my blog because no idea, my limitation of words and thoughts.  This is the year of 2014, I wish I can write again.  My life is nothing special.  I had little change for my life in July 2013, which is I move out of my family and live alone.  Travelling is my favor but I cannot always travel, so I am unable to write a travelling blog.  I have a dream to write a song, today’s writing as below:

Everyday I have dream to be rich

Everyday I have dream to be pretty 

Everyday I have faith to have good life

Everyday I have glory to have happiness
Whatever I have, I am true and honest to myself and others
Sometimes life goes down and you are in trouble

Sometimes life goes down and you are in darkness

Try to pray when you are sad

Smile when you can

Let it goes when you cannot change

Calm down when you are angry

Don’t worry be happy

It is proved that you are unique in this world

I hope my words becomes a song in future

White

My dearest readers, I have long time not written on my blog.  I got influenza in two months ago and I got well at the end of March 2013.  I am lucky, I am good now, thanks God.  I would like to write something about myself this time.  I like white,  I think it is beautiful.  White colour is perfectly pure and clean. It expresses clean, no dirty, no mistake and no guilt. Sometimes, it means peace and nobleness.  White pigeon flying in the blue sky at the International Day of Peace or National Day means freedom and peace. I like white rose because it is very special and beautiful.  White rose has many meanings and symbols. A pristine white rose symbolize purity, innocence and virtue, it represents young love, new love and marriage. It means everlasting or eternal love, loyalty, humility and reverence.  The white rose are used at funerals as a symbol of spiritual love and remembrance in death, it means heavenliness, spiritual love and respect.  

Light

I had fever on 6 February 2013.  I have been sick and I coughed a lot during whole month of February until today. I stayed at home during Chinese New Year holidays.  I hate it was happened at the beginning of year, everyday I lay down on the bed looked through the window.  Some cotton and bauhinia blakeana trees are planted near the road close to City Park. A small mountain is behind the tall building, which is opposite to City Park. I want to go the mountain, smell fresh air and scent of grass, hear birds singing and listen the river song. I want to be there but I was weak and tired. I prayed and looked at the sky.  I saw the sun, the sunray crossed clouds gone down to the ground.  It gives us warm.  I remember light was created in the first day by God.

Genesis 1 (World English Bible)

The Creation

1 In the beginning God [1] created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was evening and there was morning, one day.

6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8 God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so. 10 God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good. 11 God said, “Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;” and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20 God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.” 21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24 God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so. 25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

26 God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

29 God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Light is good. It light up darkness, it means faith, hope and love to us.

Psalm 112:4 

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

I like the blue sky, it is very beautiful. Which is reflected on the sea, the blue sky and ocean are famous beauties in the world. 

http://www.christnotes.org




light sky at  http://www.tourism.gov.hk/symphony/   at  http://uniquelysingapore.org/

River

A river with mystic and romantic stories that is Nile.  “Death in the Nile” was published on Nov 1937 and “Daughter of the Nile” was published on July 1976 are famous books.  I read “Daughter of the Nile” when I was kid and like this book.  It provides many thoughts and I imagined it has love, beauty and life that happened among this river, and the romantic love story of the daughter of Nile.  

Nile

The Nile River is the longest river of the world.  It is risen from Burundi cross Egypt then goes to South Sudan with an approximate length of 4,160 miles.  The second longest river is Amazon located in South America, its source in Peru flows through Brazil into the Atlantic Ocean and its approximate length is 4,049 miles.  Amazon River is the world greatest river, it carry largest volume of water discharged into the sea.  The generally accepted method among scientists is to measure the length of the longest continuous river channel in a given river systems.  Water is a life source to human.  It has the longest history and oldest story.  However long of the river, it feeds everything; it gives life in the earth.  The river has many mouths which join together flowing into the sea and it also creates waterfalls.  The river flows like a dance and it’s collision like a song. 

France is a beautiful country with art and sense of romanticism.  The Eiffel Tower and The Louvre are part of its cultural heritage.  The Mona Lisa has her room in Louvre.  The longest river in France is Loire River (630 miles) and the last wild river in all of Europe flowing westward from the south of Cevennes into Orleans and the city of tours, and spilling into the Atlantic Ocean at Nantes.  On the 2nd December 2000, the Loire River was recognized as a World Heritage site.  The UNESCO committee said that the Loire is “an exceptional cultural landscape, of great beauty, comprised of historic cities and villages, great architectural monuments – the Châteaux – and lands that have been cultivated and shaped by centuries of interaction between local populations and their physical environment, in particular the Loire itself.”

I like rivers because it is powerful.  The beauty of it’s unlimited energy create life.  It is life source to the earth. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/habitats/River

http://www.gbcma.vic.gov.au/goulburnrestoration/works.asp

http://www.uniworld.com/rivers/Europe

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/

http://www.francetravelguide.com/loire-valley

http://www.riverloire.com/en/Loire-Valley-guide/the-loire-valley-and-the-loire-river.html

http://www.chiddingstone.kent.sch.uk/homework/egypt/nile.htm

http://geography.about.com/od/lists/a/longestrivers.htm

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-longest-rivers-in-the-world.htm

http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/world-map-longest-rivers.html#

Water Drop

There are some days raining from winter to spring in Hong Kong.  I hate bad rain.  There is black cloud on the sky, it is bad weather cloudy and wet when it is rainy day. The sun cause the water to evaporate, the evaporated water floats up  into the atmosphere, the water vapor cools down and condense to form clouds.  When clouds condense enough, the water vapor will turn back into a liquid and fall to the earth as rain.  This is called the water cycle.  The rain drops falling down on the farm, tree, flower, grass, river and ground.  Water drop feeds land and animals, water the plant, the plant grows up after rain.  Afterward sunray gives light and warm to the earth take care of the land.  The water drops before dry on the leaves, it is small and transparent, which looks like a little crystal.  I like to catch this beautiful moment. 

http://www.thewallpapers.org/tag/water/12

http://www.healthynaturalyou.com/airandwater.html

http://www.hdwallpaperspics.com

http://www.scienceagogo.com/

https://sites.google.com/site/sciencebushmc/archives/whatcausesrain

 

http://www.worldtravelguide.net/singapore