Posted in Activities, Chinese life, Friends Gathering, Life, Pics, Plants & Flowers, Travelling on 08/12/2011 07:41 am by Vanessa
What I can’t miss is to take photos nowadays where ever I go.
It was a great chance to go to Inner Mongolia with friends as they drove there for some sort of business. I just went there for fun.
No doubt we took a lot of photos, but out of the photos some wild flowers inspired me a lot. They were in blossom even only one or two plants only of each kind scattering in the grassland.
The wild lives are not the most beautiful flowers I have ever seen yet they are the strongest for sure. No one looks after them but they enjoy the natural sunshine and rain water to grow even thriving.
What a life! I do like them and I have taken photos of the ones I saw.
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Posted in Activities, Chinese life, Festivals, Plants & Flowers, Vanessa's Stuff on 10/15/2009 03:24 pm by Vanessa
Here are only some extra nice photos from the Flower Expo in this post, which I can not fit in the previous entries.
It was really nice. We would go again if it will hold in Beijing next time.
You can tell from this picture it’s been the harvest season already!
I was told those plants were alive. I thought they were dried at first. Actually not. They live without earth, but you need to water them, just spray them with a watering pot. What a new technology!
I love the following ones. We could decorate our own places similar to that or inspire by it
Well, as I said, I took too many photos. I really like them. So, two more to conclude my Flower Expo post.
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Posted in Activities, Art, Chinese life, Festivals, Plants & Flowers, Vanessa's Stuff on 10/14/2009 01:40 pm by Vanessa
As I mentioned in Part One the flower expo had two venues.
The outdoor flowers were common ones which you could see at most of the places. At the expo, it was just like a big park and the weather was great! It was really lovely to walk aroud there except too many people and you could hardly find a peaceful area.
However, there were some very strange plants which I had never seen them before. I still do not know the names. Sorry! Please educate me if you know them.
I was told that the first one was a tropical plant ant it ate insects with those strange dangling buds.
Those two are nice too, but I also do not know their names.
The fruit trees were amazing. There were lots of fruit on them. I was told they were seven or eight years old already. I was going to buy one home, but I really had a problem to take it home and I of course do not know how to look after them!
1st was apple and 2nd was Chinese crab apple tree.
The fake flowers were so colourful and beautiful.They gave me a shock.
We took too many nice photos at the expo. I should post anohter one tmr to finish it, otherwise too many pics in this post.
Hope you enjoy the nice flower photos.
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Posted in Activities, Chinese life, Festivals, Plants & Flowers, Vanessa's Stuff on 10/13/2009 02:34 pm by Vanessa
I don’t really know much about the Flower Expo. Apparentely it’s the 7th one already.
Anyway I was just interested in looking at the pretty and different flowers. So we went to the Expo. It took us about 1.5hs to get there by public transport. (We don’t have a car. Taxi is too expensive!)
As it was during Chinese National Holiday there were more people than you could imagine: the queuing line for tickets, entering the show building, taking photos, and looking at the flowers… oh my god! I was like in the ocean of people!
I love taking photos and being taken…so now showcase my pics here!
I mentioned before in my previous post this year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of PRC. So, look at the design. They both mean something here.
The show had two venues indoor part and outdoor part.
The above were taken inside.
The following pics were taken outside.
That’s the part of Vanessa’s photos. Please follow the 2nd part of flowers tomorrow.
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