Posts Tagged ‘animals’
Iwako Japanese eraser
Dolphin tricks
The dolphins st Sentosa wave hi and do some jumping tricks!
dolphin waving from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
jumping hoops from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
ball touch from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
Bird atop cactus tree
That bird may not look so far, but then I zoom out and you can see just how crazy cacti can grow.
bird atop cactus from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
Hungry bull
It’s been a long 3 1/2 days, so here’s a quick video post. When I went up to Ngong Ping Village in Hong Kong, I was walking over to the temple when I came across this bull grazing. He was SO close – the video doesn’t do it justice. I was intimidated and very watchful of him, in case he decided to run one of us over. But hey, it seems he’s really into his food.
grazing bull from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
Butterflies
A pair of butterflies flirting as they do in a mating ritual.
butterflies flirting from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
This one completely ignored me even when I touched it!
motionless butterfly from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
And this one had such a cool bright blue color.
neon butterfly from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
Jellyfish display
They catch the light so nicely and give off a really cool glow.
glowing jellyfish from Mary Qin on Vimeo.
Huntington Gardens: Chinese & Japanese garden
A continuation of the last gallery of pictures from the Huntington Gardens. Click images for full size.
- Entering the Chinese garden, so of course there are lotuses!
- It’s good to walk barefoot on these to stimulate your feet and get some self-reflexology treatment.
- Enjoying a bit of massaging on my feet.
- A momma duck led her ducklings around to have some fun and enjoy the day.
- Enjoying my vantage point.
- It looks just like the Menchies logo!
- Using a dead stem as its platform.
- On one stem, a dead lotus. On the other, a dragonfly.
- Holding up the bridge, that one.
- I used my plate from lunch to attract koi that thought they’d get food.
- They blend in quite well to the floor of leaves.
- Having a little family outing/field trip.
- This is a duck herding her young.
- And plop, in they go to follow mom.
- There they go, off to the next adventure.
- Among the blur of the scenery is a dragonfly passing by.
- We enter the Japanese garden and find a bridge with the highest arch I’ve ever seen.
- I dub it “beta koi” because it’s a koi that wants to be a beta fish.
- Another blurry shot as I catch a dragonfly in action.
- So I’m guessing it’s a princess ant since it has wings.
- Check out how one pair of wings is flapping down while the other is flapping up!
- With the huge lotus leaves as a backdrop, a dragonfly rushes past.
- Captured both a dragonfly and a koi in this shot!
- This one had that “feed me” look, but I had nothing to offer.
- A smaller, cuter dragonfly with a head like a hammerhead shark’s.
- Using plants to create a canopy, now there is something I like! Definitely want to consider that for my future backyard.
- A mini bamboo forest greeted us at the top of the hill.
- The ripples of water are carefully raked into zen gardens.
- So small and delicate! There are these plastic pieces that kids use to make jewelry that look kind of like this when put together. You know what I’m talking about?
- I found a baby leaf yet to completely unfurl into its adult self.
- Off they go into the bamboo forest.
- Deeper and deeper they go… if there was a horizon or sunset, they’d disappear into it.
See the final part here.
Fish life
The development of a fish! Pretty cool display.
fish lifecycle from Mary Qin on Vimeo.












































