What the flowers saw

Look.

Out the window.
A canopy of trees.

Look out the window.
An encroaching urban jungle.

Soon to engulf,
Our mish-mash foliage —
Raintrees, Angsana trees.
They tangle together.

No more.

Not here.

These trees that stand in plain sight today.
Beneath layers of foliage, lichens, parasitic ferns,
before you see the tree they cover,
the craggy bark these plants cling onto.

But in the distance,
Look.

In the heart of the urban jungle,
Conservatories, man have built.

Gardens by the Bay.
Trees from far off lands stand there.
Proud individuals in their cooled air domes.

There,
the flowers be.
Studied closely, bloom by bloom
they hang. There.

And this is what the flowers saw.

Apologies for the bit of bad pseudo-poetry.

We took my mom to see the tulip display at the Gardens by the Bay for Mother’s Day. Although my mother loves her container garden, she perhaps found it hard to appreciate flowers and plants from other continents that she is not familiar with. She was happiest when she could identify plants similar to those that she is used to. And she had greater interest in the fruit bushes found at the sidelines than the tulips and other strange flowering shrubs that would not survive our climate outside of the conservatory. But I think she had a good time.

I discovered the iPhoneography challenge sponsored by gracienobiya, Lens and Pens by Sally and watchingthephotoreels the other day via completelydisappear. All the photos on this blog are taken with my iPhone. The photos above using the iPhone camera app and the Gorillacam app. I’m not used to editing much on my iPhone though, so that would be something interesting to start exploring in future posts.

When you are planning for a country, you can’t afford to see the individual tree. I sometimes wonder what sort of forest do our country leaders envision in their heads. Just a curious interest.

Themes: Nature, From above
iPhoneography Challenge: Nature