Cutting Day - Before and After...

A 4 men team came.
Harith joined as a team member number five... keeping busy looking at them cutting and throwing  away branches and others.


By the time they were done with big trees, I requested one of them to clear these plants that I have planted for the past three years...


BEFORE

A close up capture from my phone cam.  My  heart went with them... blooming heliconias...were cut away to make way for fresh looking shoots in a month's time...  Those other plants that went along were herbal plants, flowering plants and and and... I won't mention them anymore...

These plants were actually hazardous to us when we drive home at night.  They blocked our views from the gate...  This area is prone to theft-cum-break-ins  We would not want to bump into "people" hiding behind them... They are no longer safe to be kept so tall and bushy.

AFTER.....

Last Sunday night's storm broke a huge branch that barely struck my son's bedroom,was from this huge tree called Saga Tree.One of the guys who went up to chop these "dangerous" branches, had accidentally cut his thumb.  The tree is so tall that if things were to happen, the whole house would easily be covered by it.

A close up of the huge trunk...

BEFORE

 

 

The tree (far behind) that fed the monkeys  and beautiful birds like King Fishers, Woody Wood Pecker and some Yellow colored birds... the branches came so close to my bedroom window... it gives me frights when the monkeys are having breakfast.

AFTER

I sort of missed the beautiful green leaves that hang into my window... NOW I won't be able to see beautiful birds 

so close by anymore.

BEFORE...

Bushes of Bird of Paradise... giving me such a 

bright yellow-orangery color...

AFTER

some "Torch Ginger Buds " (far behind) were left behind to savor my cooking...  Herbal plants are chopped off too but soon they start sprouting again.

mmmmmmmm

Harith found these beautiful flowers on the ground... lets keep them.

For the first time in his life, he was allowed to touch the flowers and the grass.  Now he is even allowed to hold the hose and water the tomato plants.

 

colors of these pictures are not very good.... never mind that... guess what?  I am still trying to get used to empty spaces where those plants used to be before being cut off... but they will come back soon am sure.... I feel "rather lost"... funny ain't it?

GREENS BUT NOT JEALOUS!

After the hour-cyber- trip around the buildings in KL, and the little teary posting there, I have decided to share some cheerful shots around my house and this is for the bloggers who make cyber journeys looking for something soothing to their eyes.

AND also especially to ALL my silent visitors who drop by and graciously leaving without tapping a few words in my comment columns...hahahahaha. Anyway, thank you for your visits, return visits and revisits. do come again.

An afternoon shot outside my bedroom window. Very soothing and cooling indeed. Now they appears extremely calm but not when the monkeys come by. The tress would look like being hit by hurricane.




These beautiful "keladi" patch - I am not sure what it's called in English...but they are beautiful. After it rained, I used to dig them up and put them in my pot. They survived but they seemed to tell me, "We are better off on the natural ground"...SO, leave us alone!




Close to the previous patch, here is another specie that attracted me so much. These 3 "Keladi" shots were made through my bedroom window as well.








In front of our house, this keladi was planted here since they were little. The tuber has found a new sanctuary...like it or not, they were forced to settle here.

While these different species, lived on the artificial "patch", I moved them from their natural habitat, an open ground, into this man-made corner. I prepared this corner myself...that was long before Amir Harith was born. Now I could hardly trim any leaves or give a constant watering to them...








Haaa, believed it or not? This gigantic one lives outside our fence. But I have this constant temptation to snap a picture of it. So, one morning, after watering the plants, I brave myself and edged to this fence...there might be snakes out there, specially during rainy periods like this.






Hope you have enjoyed this little tour outside my house...DONE part 2 and 3...were from other sides of this house.