Romance of Color

Summer may mean sweat on one's brow, streams running down one's eye lashes, face, neck, wet shirts sticking to one's skin and a sigh of relief when one slips into an air-conditioned home, office or mall. But to me, it means plenty of sun and with the sun, lots of light. Light to me is really a magician. It transforms otherwise plain leaves and flowers into unbelievably varied patterns of light and darkness, transparency, translucence and everything else in between and above all, a feast of colors. This feeling was peculiarly strong when I paid a short visit to Kowloon Park after a very enjoyable "yum cha" with some of my old classmates

I was greeted by a sea of daisies upon arrival at the park.

I love this ball with its shades melting gradually from clarity into a soothing vagueness.

And the fresh yellow of this allamanda

Nearby was this resplendent young bird of paradise.

and its buds.

Two real birds of the tropical paradise: parrots.

Flamingoes.

And these beautiful flowers growing at the side of the pond

A close up of one of them.

Nearby growing upon a fence, were these glory bowers or white lanterns.

And this one blooming

Another one

Close by, were these budding yellow daylilies or infundibuliforms (?)

These purple balls of bachelor's button

A flame?

dancing stamens of this bristly melastoma

And these cockerel crown

These leaves, though less elaborate, have their own beauty too.

A fallen flower.

One of the few remaining roses

Another one

It's very complicated heart!



The last rose of summer



Not far from them, I found many many of  these pink wishbones or pink torenias.

Another one

A perfect crown!

A true romance of color in yellow, red, pink, orange, blue, green, purple, brown, black and white...!