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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Pigeon fight

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

New neighbours

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Downtown trees - orchard road

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Monday, February 15, 2010

Gong xi fa cai!

Artificial cherry blossoms adorn the roadsides during chinese new year in singapore!
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Amidst the roots of the banyan

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Saturday, February 13, 2010

The tempinis tree

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Roots!

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

To the summit..


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Monday, February 8, 2010

In celebration of this blog's first anniversary - Art in nature

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Flowers from the park



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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Do you know what this is called?

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Thursday, February 4, 2010

The lattice trunk tree



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