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

The Flower Seller

The Flower Seller, originally uploaded by haechoo.

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

One Among Many

One Among Many, originally uploaded by haechoo.

“The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses”

- John Fischer

Left Behind

Left Behind, originally uploaded by haechoo.

“If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind.”

- T. Alan Armstrong

Waiting

Cabbie, originally uploaded by haechoo.

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Fish Monger

Maldivian Fish Market, originally uploaded by haechoo.

“Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”

- Karl Marx

Little Hermit Crab

Little Hermit Crab, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Hermit crabs are decapod crustaceans of the superfamily Paguroidea. They are not closely related to true crabs.

Most frequently hermit crabs use the shells of sea snails; the tip of the hermit crab's abdomen is adapted to clasp strongly onto the columella of the snail shell. As the hermit crab grows in size, it has to find a larger shell and abandon the previous one.

This habit of living in a second hand shell gives rise to the popular name "hermit crab", by analogy to a hermit who lives alone.

- Wikipedia

The Wet Market

Banzaan Market, Patong, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Through the water
Slippy, sloppy
Past the meat men
Chippy, choppy
Round the fish stalls
Slimy, scaley
Stop to buy prawn balls.

Shout for veggies
Higgle, haggle
Grab some bean sprouts
Wiggle, waggle
Wrap the dou foo
Wibble, wobble
Glad we're all done
Phew!

"Rhyming Round Singapore"
by Kathleen Chia and Linda Gan

The Maldivian Sunset

Maldivian Jetty HDR, originally uploaded by haechoo.

"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.”

- Elbert Hubbard

To Begin Again

One of the best things we can do in our lives is this:
Begin again.

Begin to see yourself as you were
When you were the happiest and strongest you've ever been.

Begin to remember what worked for you
(and what worked against you),
And try to capture the magic again.

Begin to remember how natural it was when you were a child --
To live a lifetime each day.

Begin to forget the baggage you have carried with you
For years:
The problems that don't matter anymore,
The tears that cried themselves away,
And the worries that are going to wash away
On the shore of tomorrow's new beginnings.

Tomorrow tells us it will be here every new day of our lives;
And if we will be wise,
We will turn away from the problems of the past
And give the future -- and ourselves -- a chance
To become the best of friends.

Sometimes all it takes is a wish in the heart to let yourself ..
Begin again.

Sapana

Spread those wings

Spread those wings, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Happiness is a butterfly,
which when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

More of the Little Yellow Bird

Little Yellow Bird, originally uploaded by haechoo.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Little Yellow Bird

Little Yellow Bird, originally uploaded by haechoo.

Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.

Did your lady friend leave the nest again?
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
You can fly away, in the sky away.
You're more lucky than me.

I also had a pretty girl, she's not with me today.
They're all the same those pretty girls.
Take tenderness, then they fly away.
Yellow Bird, yellow bird.

Did your lady friend leave the nest again?
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
You can fly away, in the sky away.
You're more lucky than me.

Wish that I were a yellow bird, I'd fly away with you.
But I am not a yellow bird, So here I sit.
Nothing I can do.
Yellow bird, yellow bird.

- Traditional Jamaican Folk Song

Modernisation Amidst Nature

Henderson Waves (HDR), originally uploaded by haechoo.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

- Peter Medawar

Fish Market

Fish Market, originally uploaded by haechoo.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

- Joseph Addison

The Return of Picspirations!

Dear readers,

Sorry for the long break which we had to take. Picspirations will be back and running in a couple of days! Stay tuned for more pictures to be inspired. :)

God bless!

Back Alley

Back Alley of a Hong Kong Street, originally uploaded by haechoo.

No one with a good catch of fish goes home by way of the back alley.

- Anonymous

Afternoon Snack

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

- Richard Buckminster Fuller

Being Different

One among Many, originally uploaded by haechoo.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

- Charles Evans Hughes