I post notes way more when nostr is in one of it's quiet periods. ?

I'm quite happy I just found this old photo of what the small shrine used to look like before it was forcefully "civilised". View quoted note →

Obeidia tigrata. Also called Tiger Moth but I always called it as Leopard Moth🤔

A pitcher from Nepenthes mirabilis growing in the wild.

In my previous photo I put up a few days ago I mistakenly named this moth Actias luna, which is native to N. America. This moth is actually Actias ningpoana, which is native to some areas of S.E. Asia. Actias Selene is another very close species also more widespread across Asia.

The inside young fronds of Brainea insignis. HK name is 蘇鐵蕨, which can translate as Cycad Fern as it grows resembling a cycad. The name for cycad 蘇鐵 likely refers to the trunk of the plant which is tough like iron.

Sorry picture is rubbish.

A baby visitor in my home.

Aristolochia championii. Some call it Dutchman's Pipe.

Fern crosier. I wonder if the "Shepherd's Staff" carried by some Christian priests was influenced by these natural inspirations?😅

Clelea sapphirina ?

A young fern growing.

One of my favourite places I liked to sit in the mountain. It was a small informal "garden" that was built around a small mountain spring. Likely built by some quiet devotees in the 1960s and maintained by others who knew it. Very quiet and with a small shrine for placing incense. Maybe only a handful of people would visit in a week. I went since the 1970s until in sometime around 2010s. Hidden away and never really visited by many people all the years. Unfortunately, a mainland group found it and decided it needed some upgrade. They smashed all the stuff and covered it in concrete......it after that looked like a nasty pink public toilet.

Street scene in HK likely in the late 1970s. We called those double decker buses "Hot Dogs"....... no aircon in those times but still my favourite bus journeys.

HK street newspaper seller some time in 1970s. This is the kind of place where those comics I have been showing were sold. Can't quite see if there are any in his stack!

Youth in Guangzhou a few months after Chairman Mao's death in 1976.

More HK comic goodness.