Lotus - from young to old

Pictures shown here with lotus at stages of young to old. This reminds us about Life Cycle. Every living creature has to go through the process of Birth, Old, Sickness and Death (生,老,病,死). We cannot avoid this cycle and have to face it graciously. More importantly for us is to be a useful person, of no harm to other people, contribute positively to humanity and live happily during our life time.

This is exactly reflected in lotus. It is grown in muddy pond, grows up graciously, cherish the world by its flowers and sow the seeds for future life.

Lotus seeds - resemble a shower head?

In appreciation of the support of a blog pal, Kenny Point of Gardening Secret, I decided to post photos of lotus for his viewing pleasure. Lotus is a sacred plant to me as it represents purity. Though it is grown in muddy water, it still can grow elegantly. Its flowers are just facinating and we can feel the atmosphere of calmness and peacefulness when lotus bloomed. When the flower faded, the seed will grow and they are edible. The seeds taste nice and chrunchy. Most Chinese believe the seeds have medicinal values. The lotus roots are well-liked by the Chinese to boil lotus root soup, and believe me, the soup tastes delicious. So, what we can see here is that lotus plant is a very useful plant to all of us. Perhaps Kenny Point may want to try to plant some lotus plants in his garden.

The Sun of Lotus

Posted here are the first moment of a lotus bloomed at Gary's Garden. It really looks like a sun. Its aroma is the nicest at this moment. When the petals drop completely after a few days (normally about 3 days), the 'sun' will turn green and grows bigger each day. Its seeds taste nice and have medicinal value.

Internet Technology 亙联网科技

Someone has requested Gary's Garden to post something about internet or IT technology in the website. Initially, I thought that the topic was somehow not related to the site but on second thought, internet technology has enable Gary's Garden to share our view and passion to the community at large and reach out to all of you. Without this technology, publishing or sharing of view is unthinkable. We should be grateful to this technology as the peoples are far apart physically but the technology has made us feel like we are staying next door. It is amazing, right? Inventions of VOIP products like Skype, MSN Messanger, Yahoo Messsanger, Hello, just to name a few, have made the world even smaller. We are not divided by boundaries. So, if the IT technology can made the world bounderless, why should we human demarcate boundaries, right? What do you think? Here, we wish to attach a photo of lotus leaf so to ease your reading.

有人建议我们发佈有关亙联网科技项目的在我们的网站. 起初我们以为这根本没有关系到我们的主题. 可是在想一想, 如果没有这门科技, 本网站根本无能发佈我们的意见与想法. 你以为能?

Lotus

Lotuses represent purity in life. Even they were grown in muddy earth and water, they can still grow elegantly. 出自污泥十而不染