Friday, 9 December 2016

Greenish Yellow Grasshopper

"Leaves, leaves, green green leaves, I want my food, where are they? I am going to starve to death!!"
"Liars! You are in tropical country, there are tons of leaves produce every day and every where, only the lazy and dumb grasshoppers would starve to death!"

Well, on this land, we do have many lazy, smart and dumb pests around.

Take away the feelers, this grasshopper look like a frog or newt on the front part.


Thursday, 8 December 2016

Anthurium Plant

Despite new environment in the farm and lack of maintenance, the plant survives quite well by producing waxy and pretty pinkish
flower.


Beautiful Leaves

After seeing the ugliest creature, it is better to see the beautiful leaves to balance up the brain reactions.

The three-colour plant continues to come up with beautiful pink leaves in my garden. The trick is to trim the plant often.  Even the next stage of ageing still give the pleasing white leaves before turning into normal green. 

Rose plants also produce dark pink pretty young leaves but its beautiful flowers over-shadow these leaves.


Ugliest Creature

Most creatures on this Earth come with forms and patterns, being bacteria to humans, you can distinguish them easily.

But this creature has no form, look like rubbish of textile, feathers,  pasted together. I saw it moving slowly on the Wall in my old home at Sarikei. It is quite small, being 4-6mm wide and 10-12mm tall. Not very sure what it is, perhaps a sort of insect pupa, likely moth, hiding underneath the hastily glued rubbish collection.
Was it?


Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Serene View of the Ponds

The view has been blocked by the fast growth of trees and plants on the lowland. I cut down the trees and plants again in order to see the view, the third time since 2013. Interference is required to suit my views, but Nature does not seem to like that. The plants grow incessantly and compete with each other on every space of the land. What are they rushing for?


Tropical Green Green Forest

On the hill side of my farmland, I can see unending green green forest of the far land. It soothes my unsettled and angry spirit from the city and I feel peace every time I came to the farm. 
Perhaps, this BBC article on NDD (Nature Deficit Disorder), reported on 26th November, applied to me as well after staying in the city for 30 years.




Monday, 5 December 2016

Forest Spider

You may have seen a lot of house spiders, but this one is the forest spider. I don't know how it crawls onto my bag pack in my farm. It is quite small but the colour is light brown but the body seems to be made up rough patches of skin.