Wow! Who but God!
Editor's Note: For a change of pace (after sharing with you Colorado's Blizzard of 2006), we would like to share with you a thing of beauty, that,"only God can make." An ambassador friend of Amb. Rudy Arizala shared these photos with him and thought of sharing them with us. The Thai flowers remind Amb. Arizala of the "Birds of Paradise" that his mother used to grow, along with orchids and other flowering plants, when she was alive.
These flowers remind us of John Keats' poem Endymion (1818):
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Its loveliness increases;
It will never pass into nothingness
But will still keep.
In previous Samut-samut, I have wished that Infanta would promote beauty in its surroundings. We have so many beautfiul flowers that can compete with the rarest in the world, such as orchids, lilies, sampaguitas, dama de noche. If we could only have one place such as a mini botanical garden where we can enjoy them in all their splendor. Metro Infanta Foundation has given it a start by way of the Prayer Garden that we built in remembrance of the Carmelite Fathers. I hope beautiful flowers will keep be an attraction for said garden, so that it will indeed be "a thing of beauty," we can enjoy forever.
FLOWER ALL THE WAY FROM THAILAND...THE VERY RARE PARROT FLOWER
