Round and Round the Garden…

…with a Nikon D50

The Ents I

Margosa (better known as Kohomba), Margosa again and Guava

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Strange Yellow Flower

I haven’t got a clue as to what this flower is…

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The Ents II

Burnt Bamboo, stump of Indian Willow (I) and Coconut

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Leaves

Bamboo, Cadju and Coconut

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Out from the Ugly

Yet another plant in bloom in the garden and I haven’t an inkling as to what it is

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Dead Leaf (Cadju Tree)

Once a massive tree with sturdy sprawling branches that supported a tree house and held a quire rope swing, the Cadju tree was cut down a few weeks ago. In its 20 or so years it’d gotten diseased… Its trunk was rotting from the inside.

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Indian Willow

The stump of Indian Willow (II). Both trees were cut down recently, they were towering at about 40 ft.

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Coconut Fiber

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Sludge Monster (In the making)

The neighbour’s stuck bits of glass bottles along the top of the wall at the back of the garden. The neck of this bottle-bit seems to have collected stuff over time that has turned into disgusting goop. Will probably mutate into a sludge monster and eat us in our sleep…

Fiendish Creature

At my home! Well in the bare patch of land facing my house. There’s a force field that keeps it from entering the garden, sort of like a tether that tugs on it if it goes wild.

The creature skulks in the darkness of the night, cowering from the moon light and only moving about by leaping from shadow to shadow. It’s  outside every night but returning home this evening I was startled by the evil spirit.

Driving up the dark road to my house, we had just reached the boundry where the bare land begins. Out of the corner of my eye I could see a vague shape with glowing luminous eyes caught in the dimmer part of headlights of the car. I breathed out ‘WHAT THE…?” while turning to face the creature and saw…

Alright, not quite. But close…

This is what I what I saw… for real (different angle though and the pic was taken with flash so it’s not as creepy).

Just look at that sickly creature! You can see its ribs and its legs are spindly. That’s just not right! That pony is the living dead, I tell you!

Matryoshka Doll

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The Middle Child

Creative juices

I like to dabble in all things creative. Although since I’ve developed quite a few creative interests, I haven’t been able to devote my time to and fully explore one in particular. No qualms there anyway, I like to think of myself as a sort of Jack of all trades but a King of none.

Of my creative interest, I’m best at sketching. Some of my sketches can be found here and here. Not half bad at painting, my most recent work can be found here. I write poetry, one of my poems can be found here.

I write short stories as well, but most people can’t seem to appreciate the macabre nature of them. So I’ll keep them to myself.

Beside that there’s music… possibly my weakest creative interest. I don’t think I’ll be able to compose music EVER but I practice playing rock songs on my guitar (it has to be rock!). I haven’t got any links for that though. I haven’t followed our in-house maestro,  Gehan’s example and made a headless videos of myself  strumming my guitar. You can call me macabre, morbid, whatever you will but cruel is what I’m not, I’ve spared you all the torture that my household is subjected to when I pick up my guitar.

I’ve also tried my hand at photography. However, I haven’t been able to explore that avenue since all I’ve got is my sister’s Nikon DSLR… when she isn’t looking! She’s very protective about her precious camera. Of course you can’t blame her. I have a nasty track record for losing things and I happen to be a klutz- I have a tendency to trip and drop things (often both at the same time).

Anyway I decided to try my hand at concept photography recently. I’ve posted two pics below. Will put up the rest later- whenever I’m struck with a bout of writer’s block.

Attribution: The origami cranes were constructed by my li’l bro. Waiting for my mom at the hospital he was so bored he made 11 cranes!

The Alpha Male

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The Oddball