The rain forest on my doorstep.
Our house in the distance
This little chap is what we call a Scrat - a cross between a squirrel and a rat! Love that bottlebrush tail!
So much to see growing locally !
Our house in the distance
This little chap is what we call a Scrat - a cross between a squirrel and a rat! Love that bottlebrush tail!
So much to see growing locally !
Bananas
?? Looks like an enormous apple!
Starfruit
Mango
Looks like a kind of fig!
Jackfruit
Papayas
Unidentified!
Another unidentified fruit
Unidentified open
We all go through these "spells". Where you are living is like a tropical paradise. I would imagine that you are inspired by all the color and form in the many places you have lived. Be well.Be happy.
ReplyDeleteSpectacular photographs. I note that you are reminiscing about bluebell woods when you are surrounded by such lushness!
ReplyDeleteThe Scrat is making me smile. I'm wondering, when he loses his balance, whether his tail whirrs around like a propeller. Hope you are back in your studio soon. Sometimes it's good to take a break.
ReplyDeleteI hope that you find your dry spell is just a period of fermentation for lots of ideas to come forth very soon!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful images and such luscious colors all around you! Wow.
what a trip! Exotic! Stimulating imagination and the glowing lantern flowers of purple WOW! Best lot of photos EVER! Thank you.
ReplyDeleteOh what abundance!!! What beauty!
ReplyDeleteBut even then you have just like all of us a creative dip. So I guess a tropical environment isn't a guarantee to be productive either.
Well these things always pass and I know you will be back and blow us away with your amazing art. So just enjoy doing other things Caroline!
Have a nice day
groetjes!
>M<
You must be living in a wonderful place - with all these exotic things - wow!! Lovely.
ReplyDeleteOh that banana flower won my heart!
ReplyDeleteWhat a healthy abundance of vegitation you live around. NUMMY!!!!!!!
All that green!! Amazing. What stunning fotos and all that interesting looking fruit.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you as far as the muse and blogging lately. Perhaps if we exchanged back yards for a day that would help??
ReplyDeleteThe photos are lovely! The scrat made me laugh!! Emma loves her squirrels. I'm sure she'd be bonkers if she saw these guys!
Show up when you can my friend. That's the best we can do.
xo
Lo♥
I'm with you as far as the muse and blogging lately. Perhaps if we exchanged back yards for a day that would help??
ReplyDeleteThe photos are lovely! The scrat made me laugh!! Emma loves her squirrels. I'm sure she'd be bonkers if she saw these guys!
Show up when you can my friend. That's the best we can do.
xo
Lo♥
Love everything this week Caroline. You live in a beautiful, lush place with amazing fruits and flowers. My favourites are the papayas and figs and that wonderful tail on the squirrely animal. It really is just like a bottlebrush. I saw a photo once of an English grey squirrel with the sun shining through its tail and it was just like a rat's tail without the huge amount of fur. Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteCreative block or not, I love seeing these photos of your area. So lush and green and so many beautiful colors! Sit quietly and let your muse rest. She just needed some time off. Thanks for the tour.
ReplyDeleteGood heavens, you live in Paradise! I would find it very difficult to stay inside a studio with beauty like that right outside my door. VERY cool photo of the palm fronds!
ReplyDeletePoor me! Until now I couldn't figure out which part or KL you're living in! Luxury scenes!
ReplyDeleteFor me - its the weather here. Cold and snowy has made for a muse that has taken off for warmer climes - leaving me on the sofa snoring. One would think I could spend hours on the computer, blogging and commenting but no...
ReplyDeleteLOVE your photos and as the wind whistles around the house and the freezing air creeps in - it's nice to think of tropical weather and flowers and fruits.
caroline, i'm happy for myself to say i am writing again and the muse is cooperating. but i understand when patience is needed for her to return. sometimes i force myself to write anyway, but it's never as rewarding until she's back with me.
ReplyDeletethese fruits are incredible to me. the colors and shapes are muses all by themselves. and the patterns you see in the commonplace: caroline, you have a gift. more than one, even.
ps thanks for the guidance. sigh.... ♥
kj
Wow - it's so beautiful where you live and so different from my home. Do squirrels and rats really get together like that? I thought it impossible, but what do I know?! I love the digitally enhanced photo of palm fronds, it's beautiful! So why do you live in Malaysia? Is it your childhood home? I don't believe I've ever heard what brought you there.
ReplyDeleteSeems everyone is having a block lately. Probably just time for a bit of a rest. Love it when you show us your world especially when mine is grey and drizzly!
ReplyDeleteGreat pics Caroline, miss you, glad to see you trying to create again. Want you back in the studio, where you belong, the soul needs it!
ReplyDeleteLove Caroline
You make me long for my birthplace...
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