Attractive White Flower Of Bottle Gourd

I finally get to see the white flower of the bottle gourd plant and get to take some snap shots of the attractive white flower.

Fan like green leaves of the bottle gourd plants.

Bud of the bottle gourd plant.

Usually the flowers are facing upwards above my head so I couldn't see or take good photos of the flowers. This flower happened to be at the edge of the trellis where I can see it clearly.

Attractive delicate white flower of the bottle gourd.

These are some of the bottle gourds harvested from my garden.

This is still growing well even in this rainy season.

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Breakfast at Kedai Kopi Ah Chow, Ipoh old town on a Thursday morning, 2 days before General Election (GE15). Elder son reached home in the wee hours of the morning and he wanted to catch up on his sleep.

Dry curry noodle for hubby.

Tom yam noodle for me.

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Home cooked dinner 

Pork tenderloin cooked with Sichuan pickled mustard.

Steamed 3 types of eggs (chicken eggs, century egg & salted egg).

Blanched home grown nai pak choy.

Home cooked dinner for 3 people.

Mural found on the back wall of a row of shops in Ipoh new town.

Linking to Monday Mural.

What a God he is! How perfect in every way!

All his promises prove true.

He is a shield for everyone who hides behind him.

(Psalm 18:30, The Living Bible-TLB)

Split Cabbage Head In My Garden

Before the rainy season started, I had 5 pots of cabbage plants growing in my garden.

This was taken in August, 2022.

This was taken in September, 2022.

This was taken in October, 2022.

The cabbage plants were growing well and healthy.

Here in this photo, the cabbage heads have started to form.

November, 2022.

This cabbage head is getting big.

This is the biggest of them all.

Due to the rainy season, the excess water has caused this cabbage head to split.

The split affected the whole cabbage head.

The insufficient sunlight also contributed to the damage.

Even the figs also split open due to excess water.

This is the curled up flower of the cranberry hibiscus.

Cranberry flowers.

Took this photo on a sunny morning.

This photo of the zebras was taken by a friend who visited the Taiping zoo.

Beautiful stripes on the zebra.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was crushed for our wickedness

[our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing];

The punishment [required] for our well-being fell on Him,

And by His stripes (wounds) we are healed.

(Isaiah 53:5, Amplified Bible-AMP)

Breakfast On A Gloomy Day

The ground was still wet from the early morning rain. 

Low cloud covering the top of Kledang Hill - 7:10am.

Sunrise at 7:20am - as we were driving out to town for breakfast.

I took these photos from a moving car. Hubby was the driver.

We had breakfast at Kedai Kopi Keng Nam, which we haven't been to for a long time.

Hubby ordered dry curry noodle.

I ordered chee cheong fun or steamed rice noodle roll.

Half without filling and half with yam bean filling.

Curry gravy, chili sauce and pickled green chili.

When I am here, I couldn't resist ordering this steamed glutinous rice with kaya (coconut jam). The glutinous rice is "lemak" with "santan" or coconut milk.

Our drinks: Unsweetened black coffee for me and Chinese tea for hubby.

Linking to Skywatch Friday.

Don't do anything that will cause criticism against yourself

even though you know that what you do is right.

For, after all, the important thing for us as Christians is not

what we eat or drink but stirring up goodness

and peace and joy from the Holy Spirit.

(Romans 14:16-17, The Living Bible-TLB)