Day 36 – 365 Days of Photography

2-5-2014

This is a busy week for me.  Morning meetings, Afternoon meetings, Evening meetings and even night meetings, and the week has just begun.  Today I drove up to Chaguanas donning my navy blue suit and light blue dress shirt, I met with the meeting host and had a grand discussion.  After, I met with an old school mate and we headed into Port of Spain.  I sat in the car waiting for her to come out of a business place, she too being an apt business woman was on her ‘A’ Game.  I looked up and down the street, camera in hand.  I reflected, and here is a reflection of my reflecting.

Looking back!

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Day 35 – 365 Days of Photography

2-4-2014

Waiting on my husband at his job site, I shot this view of the Mosquito Creek.  Different point of view, different angle than normal, it actually looks from this angle as if you can drive into the ocean if you miscalculate your drive. 

Road, Ocean, Sky!

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Day 34 – 365 Days of Photography

2-3-2014

Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae.  It is quite large, containing several hundred species that are native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world.  They are commonly known as hibiscus and less widely known as rose mallow.  The genus includes both annual and perennial herbaceous plants, as well as shrubs and small trees.  The generic name is derived from the Greek word which was the name Pedanius Dioscorides gave to Althaea officinalis.

At my childhood family home, my mother planted several of these shrubs along the fence, each flower was a different color, we had white, yellow, red, pink (various shades), blue, purple, and some variegated variations, .  My favorite of the batch was the blue hibiscus.  This flower captured is really off of my next door neighbor’s plant, but this one has shot up above the wall and leans over to my side.

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Day 33 – 365 Days of Photography

2-2-2014

Open the door and let me in.  Unlock your heart, your mind, your soul.  I hear you crying out calling, asking, pleading, have no fear, your answers are here, just unlock and let me in.

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Day 32 – 365 Days of Photography

2-1-2014

What’s for lunch?  White rice, curried bodi, stewed chicken, geera anchar mango, boiled plantain, sliced tomatoes, lettuce, and a glass of barbadine to wash it down.  Good eating, island life.

Bodi also known as Bora, is a pencil thin bean that resembles a green bean although not as crisp, and grows up to about 3 feet long.  Its usually harvested at 18 inches or less.  Bodi is an annual climbing plant with white, yellow or pale purple flowers.  Bodi belongs to the same family as the black eyed pea and pigeon pea.

Barbadine, the Giant Granadilla, Giant Tumbo or Badea, Passiflora quadrangularis, produces the largest fruit of any species within the genus Passiflora.  It is a perennial native to the Neotropics, having smooth, cordate, ovate, or acuminate leaves; petioles bearing from 4 to 6 glands; an emetic and narcotic root, scented flowers, and a large oblong fruit, containing numerous seeds, embedded in a subacid edible pulp.  A tea is made from the leaves, which is used for high blood pressure and diabetes.  A drink and ice-cream are made from the fruit.

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