General News

Tuesday Feb 14, 2012

In Bangkok, several men, one of them identified as Iranian, set off bombs and threw bombs at police and a taxi cab that refused to stop. The man throwing bombs at police lost a leg when he accidentally dropped one of his bombs.
Here is a quote from Reuters news service:

– An Iranian man was seriously wounded in Bangkok on Tuesday when a bomb he was carrying exploded and blew one of his legs off.

It appears that three men rented a house in the Ekkamai area of Bangkok and stored supplies to manufacture bombs. The police have investigated the house and defused explosive materials. It is not certain who or what their intended target was.

No one else was hurt in the bomb throwing incidents.

Actually, I feel like there are not so many flowers blooming at the moment, which may be why I am looking to dredge up some color for the blog. I’ve been meaning to give an overview of the flowers that bloom around the school throughout the year. The unfortunate thing is that I don’t know the names of the flowers. Of course, we could make this interactive, and people could leave the names in the comments!

January

February

May

July

Year-round

There are a couple flowers that I don’t have pictures of – beautiful orange flowers that drape over the fence and violet flowers on a tree near the gate. I also didn’t include potted flowers in these pictures.

For the most part these flowers do not have a smell, except the bright pink flowers in May, which have an amazing smell at dusk, almost like a vanilla and floral scent.

Flowers are fun – like a surprise. Many of these flowers only stick around for a couple weeks, and then they leave until the next year.

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