Now I See You...

Now I See You, originally uploaded by haechoo.

"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see."

- Winston Churchill

Spotted!

Spotted!, originally uploaded by haechoo.

"By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.”

- John Dryden

Now I See You...

Now I See You..., originally uploaded by haechoo.

“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Blossoms

Sentosa Flowers 2008, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Independence

Independence, originally uploaded by haechoo.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

- Steve Schmidt

Sentosa Flowers 2008 (5)

, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Sentosa Flowers 2008 (3)

Hibiscus, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Sentosa Flowers 2008

Bunched, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Sorry for the brief absence. Picspirations is now back! :)
Enjoy the flowers. Taken at the Sentosa Flowers 2008, an award-winning floral exhibition.

For more information, http://www.sentosa.com.sg/sentosaflowers/about.php

Hanging on

Hanging on, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Rain hangs about the place, like a friendly ghost. if it's not coming down in delicate droplets, then it's in buckets; and if neither, it tends to lurk suspiciously in the atmosphere.

- Barbara Acton-Bond

Visions Beyond

Visions Beyond, originally uploaded by haechoo.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

- Ivan Panin (Russian mathematician1855-1942)

Sugary Feast

Sugary Feast, originally uploaded by haechoo.

It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast.
- Edward Hyde

Discovered these ants were having a secret feast in my kitchen.
Too bad, soon after their feasting, I had to end their cheerfulness and wipe them off my table-top.

Shelled

Shelled, originally uploaded by haechoo.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Reach to the sky

Reach to the sky, originally uploaded by haechoo.

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient.

- Wayne Dyer

One among many

One among many, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Most people are stronger than they know. They just forget to believe in it sometimes.

- Keith, One Tree Hill quotes

Light vs. Darkness

Stillness, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

- Terry Pratchett quotes (English Writer)

To Stare or not to Stare

Stare, originally uploaded by haechoo.

It's OK to look back at the past - just don't stare at it.

In the land of the Giants

In the land of the Giants, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Some things you miss because they're so
tiny you overlook them. But some things you
don't see because they're so huge.

- Robert Pirsig

Pause...

Stopping for a rest, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Mating Snails?

Mating Snails, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Here's a fun and interesting shot. At first, I thought they were mating, but not too sure whether they are "rightly" positioned for such a thing.
Or perhaps the top snail just got too stuck on the other! ;P