Time to Visit an Old Friend (重訪老朋友)

I haven't been to the HK Park for a while now.

 

 It used to be a place where I practised photographing flowers.

I can still do more practices there.  

Since it's raining, Not very many people there.

There, you can still find all kinds of flowers.

Flowers which look like leaves.

Flowers which look like flowers.

Flowers which merely have retained the form of flowers.

Many of them are potted.

Many of them have been specially arranged.

 

like these

or these.

Whether they are really well arranged may be disputed but that flowers are beautiful is beyond dispute.

Many of them are colorful

And many of them have variegated petals.

Flowers can be really tiny.

They can grow in strings.

But I don't suppose the bear will care.

There are many colorful leaves there too 

 

But most leaves are quite content with being simply green

There are cacti there too

Some look really strong

Some look like veggies

Some look like spiked pumpkins

Some got thick petalled flowers

Some hang them out like a string of tiny chillis

But most got tiny flowers

But some flowers are really huge

Like these

Really nice looking sepals

Look at those bunches of buds !

This is their name

There are plenty of colored leaves in the hot house

and some weird looking shaped flowers

Some hang their flowers out in octopus-like tentacles

But others are quite happy to have the simplest shape

Some don't like their helpers to outshine them

Some like to bloom together

Some like to keep a safe distance from the others

If, so, they must be prepared to bear the solitude and be battered all alone.