Welcome Home and Good-bye

In February, Michelle went to see the King's Singers, with both of her sisters, twice. They had two performances in Rexburg, ID. Michelle went to both. She experienced something that generally we are only vaguely aware of: the crowd makes a difference. The audience made the first concert more fun than the second one.

When she got home, Matt and I had picked out these flowers for her. It turns out they were "welcome home" flowers and "Good-bye" flowers too. A few days after she came back, I left for a two week trip to Taiwan. You can read more about that in the entries below. The two weeks in Taiwan led into a week in Malaysia, and then that grew into two weeks in Malaysia.

Buga-what?

Bougainvillea.- Having first learned the name in Spanish, this official spelling was more complicated than I anticpated. Click on the word, and you can learn from Wickipedia that the name comes from an admiral in the French Navy who first came across it in Brazil. (Wickipedia uses the word "discovered", but that's too Euro-centric for me. Others had known about it long before then.) This image is an intent to capture the flower within the flower.

The more common perspective below is more recognizable.

These pictures were taken at the Equatorial Hotel in Penang, Malaysia near the end of March, 2008.