Western Style Breakfast & 5 Treasures Rice Porridge For Dinner

This is 4th of June, last day of EMCO for Ipoh. We are eagerly looking forward to the 5th of June to resume our morning walk.

For a change, we had Western style breakfast.

1 fried egg, baked beans, 2 pieces of bread and a hot drink.

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5 Treasures Rice Porridge for dinner.

Ingredients used: Roast pork with bones, salted eggs, century eggs, chopped ginger and pickled lettuce.

Blanched home grown Brazilian Spinach, drizzled with garlic oil, oyster and soy sauce.

Hubby and my neighbour said that this is the best porridge they have ever tasted.

This is one of the 3 pots of Purple Hearts in my garden.

I caught sight of this bee sucking nectar from the flower.

Even though I was holding my hand phone near, it didn't disturb the bee.

It was too busy concentrating on what it was doing.

After taking these snapshots, the bees was still busy at work on that flower.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

We are merely moving shadows,

and all our busy rushing ends in nothing.

We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it.

(Psalm 39:6, New Living Translation-NLT)

Purple Hearts Growing In My Garden

I was with a friend in Batu Gajah and we went to visit another friend at her house. This friend has many different types of plants growing in her garden. We got attracted by a purple plant and the owner blessed us with some stem cuttings to take home.

The name of this plant is Purple Hearts or Purple Queen.

It is commonly grown for its deep purple leaves.

Her plant was placed in a shady place and as you can see from the first photo, there is some slight green onn the purple leaves.

I planted the cuttings in a hanging pot with good drainage soil. It can tolerate drought.

My plant is exposed to the morning sun and the leaves have grown deeper in colour. The leaves are thick and can grow to about 6 inches long.

For best colour, the plant needs partial to full sunlight.

 As you can see from the above photo, there are very fine hairs on the leaves. These hair may cause slight irritation to sensitive skin.

My purple heart plant has started to bloom small pink flowers at its tips.

A closer look on the pink flower with 3 petals.

The pink flower is very attractive against the deep purple leaves.

The whole plant is purple. Cutting off the long stems increases more growth. The cut off stems will propagate easily.

Linking to Floral Bliss.

God means what he says. What he says goes.

His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon's scalpel,

cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense,

laying us open to listen and obey.

Nothing and no one is impervious to God's Word.

We can't get away from it - no matter what.

(Hebrews 4:12-13, The Message-MSG)