Vanda

Snakes and Ladders

Purple Swamphen of India

[update] Rhonda's post on New Zealand's Purple Swamphen, also known as Pukeko

Almond fruit

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Childhood

Favorite Photos from 2012

Rise above the ruins

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. 
--Gustave Flaubert 

My final post of 2012. Thanks so much to all the lovely people who visited my blog. Let us count down to the start of what is hopefully a year of peace and happiness for us and ours.  

Gifts

Gifts make slaves. 
   --Levi Strauss

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana Snow White

Candid puerility

On a rainy morning

Spotted Dove

A smile