Lotus Flowers at the Polling Station

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On December 18, the polling day of the recent Referendum, Jean and I took our grandchildren to Wufeng Elementary School, one of the polling stations, to let them witness how people participated in democratic voting.

In the meantime we enjoyed seeing lots of lotus flowers in the long and narrow pond surrounding the uniquely shaped building of the School History Room. Here are some photos I took, which I'd like to share with you!

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相關文章 (See also)： Lotus Flowers (荷花)

A Couple of Photos

#2021-1226

Here are a few photos taken on Sunday, December 26; the last two, however, are the copies of someone else's pictures shared on Facebook about the Christmas Eve...

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A Snow-like Plant (白雪木)

#2021-1223

"What kind of tree is that?" I asked.

"It's called 白雪木 (white snow tree)," Jean replied.

Yesterday I saw this plant blooming like snow across the ditch. I liked its snow-white flowers very much, so I took a few pictures of it, and I want to save the pictures on my blog for future reference.

I was curious about the eye-catching plant when walking with Jean to the Democracy Lawn (民主草坪) in Wufeng in the afternoon. Then, after returning home, I tried to check it with my encyclopedia, but I failed to find a detailed and comprehensive description of it.

Nevertheless, from an article on the Internet (written in Chinese) I learned that this plant has several interesting names: In English it may be called Snowflake, or Little Christmas Flower, or White Small Leaf Poinsettia, or Snow Bush, or White-laced Euphorbia, or White Christmas Bush. And in Chinese it may also be called 雪花木, 聖誕初雪, 雪苞木, 聖誕雪花, 大戟合歡, 白雪公主, 白雪樹, etc. Well, I don't really know what most people call it in Chinese or English, but I've just learned that its scientific name (學名) is Euphorbia leucocephala. (Do you want to double-check with your encyclopedia?)

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2)  Merry Christmas, 2011     (2011)

3)  The Christmas Story Retold in Different Ways    (2020)

Changing or Not?

#2021-1222

I saw the colorful fountains once again. Spring water was constantly gushing (or spewing) out from each of the pipes, and the lights from beneath the surface of the pool water kept changing from one color to another.

The whole scene seems to be constantly changing; however, it's repeating the very same action. Has it really changed? Or in reality, nothing has changed at all? -- For more than a quarter of an hour, I stood still by the Sun Moon Pond (日月池), watching and contemplating!

Note: What I mean here is not the Sun Moon Lake (日月潭) that I have been to many times!

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1)  Psalm 126, Verses 4-7, and a Personal Note     (2018)

2)  Prayers Taken from BCP (寢前禱文二則)     (2021)

3)  乾涸 vs. 豐沛     (2017)

月光山舍 (M-M-H)

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Last Friday Jean and I, as well as Lao Zhan and the other members of the "Happy Flute" group, had lunch here at the Moonlight Mountain House (M-M-H) after we took a walk on the Qingshuiyan trail (or Q-trail 清水岩步道).

Today we two as well as Lao Zhan and his wife visited the same place again -- walking along the Q-trail and then having lunch at M-M-H.

This was an outing for the Camel brothers and sisters (駱駝兄嫂), not for the "Happy Flute" group (悅笛). Some of the participants today are different from those who participated last Friday; however, the two events have turned to be very much alike: There has been a lot of Chatting, Laughing, Eating and Tea-Drinking!

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相關文章 (See also)： 與 "悅笛" 同行 (On the Qingshuiyan Trail)