Red Leaves at Lion’s Nature Education Centre

Date: 28 January 2012

Venue: Lion’s Nature Education Centre, Sai Kung

 

There are actually quite a few places where you can go in Hong Kong to see red leaves.  If you are as poor as I am, you just have to adapt and live - exploring my own beloved Hong Kong!

Of course I was invited again to go with my photographer crew: Chan-sir, Anna, Rosanna and Dennis.  To be honest, if they didn’t tell me, I couldn’t have known that there are red leaves in Sai Kung - it’s so close to where I live!  Anyway, here we go :)

It was a bit cloudy at the beginning, and a bit chill when we arrived, but we were determined to find the plum blossoms, which are also quite famous.  Oh well.  It turned out to be a disappointment.  There were a few spare plum blossoms… after we have been to Huhan and all, these plum trees were nothing in comparison!  I basically just gave up and shot butterflies instead, which was more interesting anyway.  My most beloved and talented Chan-sir went shooting red leaves while Anna, Rosanna and Dennis tried their best to shoot plum blossoms.  They have some quite nice shots as well!

 

Here are my butterfly shots.

Owing to the weather, my pictures are over-exposed but that’s the way I like them!  Very dreamy.

My mood was so-la-la… so I just shot around playfully :)

 

The education centre is quite big, and there are many different things to shoot.  Flowers, grasses, trees, birds, lotus, bamboos… you name it!  And of course red leaves!

There were many red leaves!

My red leaves pictures are then again so-la-la!  Not very impressive but I can’t deny the fact that taking photos calms my soul and makes me happy!  Later on the sun came out and I was like a bird again :)

There were many leaves fell on the floor…. making it a beautiful disarrayed map!

…along with many nameless trees.

Many red leaves :)

Shall go again next year when I am around :D  Hong Kong is such a pretty place!  Just go out and explore!

The Journey of Flowers

Went to Victoria Park with Yan the other day.  It was of course packed with people, as expected.  I really am tired of the crowds in the city.  The nice weather eased things up for us: we were wearing dresses and it felt exactly like summer!

 

Didn’t take many shots… I wonder where the hyacinths were while they were the theme this year… It was so crazy how few hyacinths were in the show!  Yan commented that there are more hyacinths in the park near where she lives than in the show, haha.

 

 

 

Green always attracts my attention, it’s my favourite colour :)

 

And here we go… some hyacinths!

 

   

 

Of course then I wondered why there were so many…

 

 

 

They are very very beautiful actually and hyacinths are not my flowers…. I am sorry to say.

 

  

 

 

There were many different types of TULIPS!  They are elegant and beautiful…

 

 

 

…and are always crowded by people (the red is too crazy)!

 

 

And here comes the end of the journey…

 

Sakura in Hong Kong

 

Was invited by Anna to Cheung Chau for the Sakura.  We have Sakura in Hong Kong!  I can’t remember the history of the only Sakura tree here, but undoubtedly it is always surrounded with people when it blossoms.  It was so incredible, it also shows how much Hong Kong people love following the smoke.

 

 

People, people, people.  I wonder how do they get to know about the tree too.  It was easy for me to answer, obviously Anna lives in Cheung Chau and she knows all about the tree.

 

The truth is, I didn’t think the tree looked like the *real* Japanese Sakura.  I still don’t think it does.  It must have been one of the species.

 

I’ve got a few nice pictures… and here they come!

 

     

 

They look alike because they are my pictures!

 

The whole time I thought about how to take nicer pictures.  I noted their pattern of growth, they blossom in bunches and that they have really nice curves.  And the whole time we ate.  We ate, we ate and we ate, we had snacks and drinks, seafood dinner, desserts, then was invited to Häagen-Dasz for dessert again!  Life is just beautiful, what more can I ask for?

 

    

 

My day was a bliss!

 

P.S. I had accidentally adjusted my camera with EV-3, thus all the pictures looked kind of overexposed.  I suppose they have their own of beauty, yeah?

Moody

A great day out to Sai Kung with Anna, Rosanna, Dennis and the most respected Chan-Sir!