mauve magnolia





magnolia garden, botanical garden, hongkong





magnolia garden, botanical garden, hongkong
March is the traditional month for azalea viewing in the government house, opened to the public once a year. Azaleas are ramparting plants blooming everywhere in the city in its hues of pink, fuchsia, red and white, almost a cliche... temperanza revels in the overdose of pink...






Psychology and metaphysics(!) consider that everyone has a child within, the " Inner child", a concept used in psychology (jungian & after) to denote a condition that can be linked back to a childhood experience, physical or emotional. Metaphysics even link the condition to the realm of angels...
to me chouchou is angelic... she got her name from the major arcana of the tarot... temperanza










A little cloud cloaks us, there flows an irised rain, that does not deter temperanza to walk in her garden...

She delights in cutting a bouquet of lavender sages for her drawing room

Then in surprise she jerks at a miniature house...

images of her childhood flash in rainbow colours like a kaleidescope

there comes the birth of petite temperanza

born with lavender hair, with sparks in lake blue eyes dancing among the dewdrops on the sages...

chouchou is wearing a light purple laced and ruffled lolita dress (cct)
my chouchou dates at les amis this noon

two days left for the free gif software... flashes of chouchou, temperanza, in her sunday angel outfit with dashes of mauve, at the old church of Christ the Redeemer at causeway bay

pillars and interior

corridors

portraits of temperanza

blessed by sainte-marie

garden

beds pf mauve flowers

on temperanza, angel outfit and white boots (sugarmag)
temperanza (temperance) is a major arcana card of the tarots, always depicted as a winged angel pouring water from one jar to another by the water. it is also one of the 4 renaissance cardinal virtures










to me chou chou is an eskimo doll with icy expressions, to shoot her a warm face, i've got to compensate exposure upto -1 or -1.3. i also had the luxury of using a borrowed tamron af asperical 24-135mm, 50th anniversary special edition no 001600 bought in tokyo, keekee
on temperanza, green wool long coat and skirt with matching top and elegant hat (sugarmag)
::hong kong legco (legislative council), jackson road, central::
post scriptum: rendez-vous chou chou, the cwc fabricated gimmick name, means in french bringing a pet to 'meeting', in that sense of the casual sort like blythe gathering (locally called meeting or MT!) or to a date, probably with presence of others' pets (so really not unlike a blythe gathering!). chou chou got a far more beautiful pronounciation than the commonly heard 'chow chow' here =_=(worse still with falling intonation, when i received a call from the official blythe agent here to fetch chowchow, lol what?...!! some even changed the spelling!!!). it's pronounced flat in 2 identical sounds, something like 'shoe shoe'
the fourth day of the first lunar month was the commencement of work (!) with luck (big mandarine) and thereafter and forever.....
temperanza in the hustle...


