Two days ago it was windy and the last of the leaves from the past season were blown off. Today there are bright new ones . . .

And a  year ago, exactly.

Spring is here and the Mahogany trees are turning color, shedding leaves, and releasing the whirlybird seeds as the seed-pods dry and split open. Nice to have «Fall» in Spring..... adds a whole new dimension to «seasons»!

Early-morning sounds were a bit muffled and muted today.... made me sleep-in a half hour longer. Looked out and saw the Indian Mahogany trees all shrouded in fog. Mannat looked out and said «Hey, its all lavenderish outside!».  So looked, and I took a few photographs too, but it was not 'lavender' in hue like Mannat saw it.... maybe faintly tinted lilac but not obviously 'lavender'. Probably children can see color quite differently to our [preconceived] perceptions....?
Soon the seed pods will start bursting and the 'whirlybird' seeds will come twirling down for the kids to collect before the school bus arrives.
Apparently, the name Mahogany comes from a combo of 2 Sanskrit words «Maha» [Great] and «Gunn» [Quality].

A massive, beautiful, old Jacaranda standing tall in the garden of a bungalow style house in Gulshan Dhaka - was chopped-down without any mercy, to make way for an apartment block.

Jacaranda mimosifolia is already a vulnerable tree species here - along with the Gulmohor [Flame Of The Forest / Royal Poinciana] - most trees being being cut down indiscriminately like the large Gulmohor in the middle of the old «Gulshan Circle-II» roundabout, also chopped down during the «beautify Dhaka» [LOL! ] drive before the last SAARC Summit. 

What a  shame!

Massive Raintrees growing in the gardens of the Shangri-La Rasa Sayang in Penang.