The hands that protect the treasure within

white-flower

jasmineI see the same familiar flower everyday yet I really didn’t know much about it until I took a very close look.

There’s a hedge of jasmine that grows just outside our bedroom window. The flowers are so small, no more than an inch from the tip of one petal to the tip of the petal opposite it, that they really don’t make much of an impression unless one sees the flowers in clusters. I was cooking lunch earlier, waiting for one side of my fish and chives frittata to brown so I could flip it over to brown the other side, when I got restless…

Red Rose

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Oh, how real those roses seem to me…

red roses

Discarded concubine

kalachuchi (Plumiera acuminata)