Beauty Shared With The Neighborhood

We saw a news broadcast this past week in which a Researcher from OHSU was being interviewed in the Rose Gardens and again on a street in downtown Portland.  We commented on how beautiful and well cared for Portland is. 

In Our Neighborhood

 The beautiful areas of Quezon City, where we live now, are for the most part behind high walls and guarded gates.  They can’t be enjoyed unless you are allowed to pass through the gates. 

However, the Temple grounds are open to view through an iron fence and a guarded gate.  It is a showplace of beautifully cared for landscaping.  It is definitely a fresh, clean site in the neighborhood.  I thought you might enjoy seeing the variety of plants and flowers surrounding the Temple.

You may have noticed a flower lei around Norma’s neck in last week’s blog.  The leis were made from flowers that had fallen on the ground around the Temple and the apartments, where we live.  Some of the flowers are so prevalent they fall as leaves in the fall, without anyone noticing or missing them from the bushes.

In Our Neighborhood

That’s all for today,

Enjoy the Gallery!

Lei From Fallen Blossoms

Our Garden

The Hedge Behind Our Apartment

Coconuts

The Blue Bush

Color Everywhere

Small Palms

Larger Bamboo Palms

Bougianvillea Yearound

Yellow Flowered Ground Cover

Pretty Intense

More Intense

Just The Right Color For A Lei

Shade from the Sun

Even Wrinkled Leaves

A Warm Garden

The Garden Wall

Little Orange Buttons

Miniature Palms

More Blossom Than Leaves

Blooms In The Shade

More Bougianvillea

Golden Sunshine

Shaped Ficus

A Fire Tree

A Fan Palm

Red Palm

Thick Leaves

A Fern?

The Fire Tree

The Cool Sound Of Water

We love you,

Mom and Dad

Elder and Sister

Larsen