The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

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Revisiting The Flight Of Fancy

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Gardens By The Bay 
Marina South, Singapore 
July 2013 

After going on an Adventure Trail led by student leaders from the Green Carpet Awards, Merlion Wayfarer stepped into the fragrant world of the Flower Dome...

As Flight Of Fancy enters its last few weeks, a dragonfly on an airmail envelope sends off visitors...

A handsewn artwork beneath the bottle brush flowers it depicts...

Freshly-watered yellow roses...

"The Secret World Of Seeds", an art exhibition by Roberto Visani...

The flight of balloons...

Cosplayers having a photo session in a quiet corner...

Pollen-dusted petals of a lily...

A gnarled tree that seems right out of a fairytale...

White-tinged leaves with colourful flowers...

The flower-lined path to Pollen, the indoor restaurant...

Harry Potter and friends are graduating this month!

The kaleidoscope of colours within the Flower Dome...

Thank you GCA and Gardens By The Bay!


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