It’s exactly two weeks to Christmas…
*Decor at this cafe here*
…and I got a card, and one for my birthday too along with it…
…all the way from my dear ol’ friend, Jasmine, in Adelaide, Australia. She has just sent me some lovely stuff not too long ago and now she has sent me some more…
…including these mince pies for Christmas…
…and everything else.
I love the calendar she sent me for 2016…
*Archive photo*
It has been hanging on the wall all year in front of my PC, right above the monitor, so I get to see it all the time. Next year’s is no exception – it is really colourful, absolutely beautiful. I like this page in particular…
…and also this one…
They’re really nice, don’t you think?
Moving on, I wonder if any of you can still remember my post on my ulam raja flowers. Well, some critters have been feasting on my ladies’ fingers leaves too…
…so they all end up looking like this. Tsk! Tsk! I did share some photographs on Facebook and somebody asked me to look out for grasshoppers. Well, I did see one big one…
…hopping around but I was not sure if it was the culprit. It jumped on me when I was watering the plants in my garden and gave me a nasty fright and after that, I did see it once again by the fence…but I have not spotted it since.
I thought perhaps there were caterpillars so I went and checked the leaves but I could not see anything until one fine day when this…
…caught my eye – a very beautiful and colourful butterfly…
Gee!!! It sure looked absolutely gorgeous – I loved the bright colours. As a matter of fact, I had never seen a butterfly this nice before…
Well, the plants are still alive, still doing all right despite the mysterious attacks on the leaves, making them look like marijuana plants, and still producing a lot of ladies fingers. We have been eating non-stop since the first harvest so much so that I do think we have had quite enough of it. I suppose I will just share the leaves with these God’s little creatures and let them help themselves to all that they want and once the plants cease to produce any more ladies fingers, I would just get rid of all of them, the plants, that is…for good. After all, should I feel like it, I can always go and buy some new seeds and start afresh.
βLook at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them…
…Are you not much more valuable than they?β Matthew 6:26
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 
Feeling the Christmas celebration ady ah… Nice shot on the butterfly! π
Yes, I love it too, nice colours.
I love absolutely everything in your photos!!! The gifts, the images and the grasshopper is delightful! π
Thank you, very colourful today…and no food, for a change. π
We have a white butterfly that lays its eggs on the vegetables you grow (cabbage, lettuce, etc), and the caterpillars will eat your produce. Happened to me.
I did look thoroughly at the leaves, one by one – no caterpillar, nothing so I really do not know what hungry thing ate them all up like that.
Cook the butterfly!
Make butterfly fritters? We call them differently here though – horse’s hoof, direct translation from the name in Foochow but some of us prefer to call them lampha koi which is probably derived from the Malay name, pelir kambing.
Christmas is in the air & goodies arrived just in time for the celebration. Love those lovely wordings of the calendar. Oh, God’s creation, the colours of the butterfly is absolutely beautiful.
Indeed. Never seen one so colourful and so nice before. I love the calendar, so beautiful!
The butterfly is beautiful…
Yes, I thought so too!
Wow, it looks like you’re all set for Dec 25 already! Now I feel woefully unready, heheh π ooo, that’s a very striking butterfly – glad you captured it in photography!
Yes, I’m glad too, love the colours! Not ready yet? Haven;t bought my present yet? Hehehehehehe!!! No worries, dijamin sampai hari esok, still in time. π π π