Spiky Buds

Following “A Hairy Tendril” from my last visit to the Botanical Gardens, we have the spiky buds from another visit to the Gardens over the weekend 🙂

Following “A Hairy Tendril” from my last visit to the Botanical Gardens, we have the spiky buds from another visit to the Gardens over the weekend 🙂

Candid shot opportunities were aplenty during the Ngrupuk parade prior to Nyepi day in Bali. The above is yet another candid shot I took in the fabulous lighting that evening.

From the same place as one of my previous posts taken in Tenganan Village in Bali. That post is being used in the current issue of the Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore, accompanied by a very appropriate quote:
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe