flower time

in this season there are still flowers in Dubai, even temperatures reach up to 40 Deg.C.

ps: photo from archive

Spider Lily Crinum

couple weeks back, one of my friends asked me to take their family pictures. we did photo shooting around their house. I saw this flower at that time.

I didn't know the name, after google it, i found the name, spider lily crinum. or I found wrong name :)
according to Wikipedia, this is planted in mainly warmer regions. this is the reason I thought I found the correct one.

again in Wikipedia, it says, this plant is poisonous. it may cause skin irritation. This is the reason I am thinking it might be wrong.

if this is really dangerous community authorities would not plant it on public area.

UAE flag is everywhere

Yesterday I tried to catch fire dancers at Jbr but no success. On the way back home I saw this rose with uae colours.
Some people may say it is cute, but I don't.

I know after you cut the rose it is not alive anymore but still I found little bit cruel to dye it with artificial colors. 

Wild Desert flower

I shared close picture of its flowers last week. Today I realized I didn't show the plant itself.

First I saw this in the middle of desert at one of safari tour. I thought it is just overthere not here in the city. But I forget one fact that this city was also desert like that.. All those fancy buildings, parks, hotels and highways there was sand and wild plants like this. I am not sure if this one will survive after they completely done Jumeirah Cornish project. 

Flower from desert

Another post from my photo walk on Saturday morning instead of running.. 
This flower was on the sand naturally. 
The colors were eye catching.  It looks like similar flower I saw couple years ago at outside of dubai and I learned that time it has poison.  This one also may had poison under this beauty. 

Eid Mubarak

Today is the first day of Eid Al Adha one of the second Eid in Islam.

Eid Mubarak ...

flower from desert

a beauty with poison..

picture from archive.. taken at fossil rock..

flowers from the Greens

Rust & Ruin

September's theme is Rust & Ruins.
It is not easy to find something rusted or ruined in Dubai.
In these days, I am just travelling and I got a help from my archived for this month's theme.
I took this picture at Miracle Garden before summer. There were many cars used in this way for decoration. I am not sure if this is matching with the theme's idea but this is all I have for the moment. :)

PS: I am away from Dubai and my computer. I prepared this post before September, I hope above link is working well.

Going to the beach

The weather is getting warmer and warmer..
taken yesterday at The Beach complex at JBR.
While I was returning to home these two ladies were going to beach at noon time. I don't think that was a good idea but they were not alone.

Heyy Taxi !!

Most probably, due to his belief, driver decorated the car with flowers.

Duabi Taxi  has very modern and nice system. 5 - 6 years back when there was not enough public transport, demand for taxis were so high. I remember that I had to wait 1.5 hour in the queue at Mall or at Airport.
Nowadays it is not the case. Call their number, if your address is already registered in their system with your number,  the nearest taxi will be sent to your address from the system, or you may talk with the operator and ask a taxi for the address where you are.

alley at wasl Square

I saw this back alley yesterday at Wasl Square which is located opposite to Safa Park. While we re running / jogging around Safa Park, we were wondering these building how it would be when the construction completed. Here is a photo from their web page during construction. last 1.5 year residents has started to live here. I had visited earlier but didn't notice or it was not like this at that time. Yesterday while I was looking for parking space, I noticed this small alley full with flowers. All gardens has different flowers / plants but bougainvillea is the most popular one.

burj khalifa made from flowers

Taken at Miracle Garden.
the best season to visit is winter time. they are still open but I am not sure after 40 deg C heat how these flowers will look like. I took this picture in late Feb.

P for Peacock

taken at Dubai Miracle Garden.
this huge flower peacock is located at the main entrance of the garden. There is one more peacock here next to this one. It was quite difficult to take a picture of it without any people. this point is very popular point to take pictures.

posted for ABC Wednesday

La Boheme

A cafe at The Walk, JBR (Jumeirah Beach Residence)
I haven't try the cafe but the way how it looks from outside is so nice. Bougainvillea is quite popular here. most of the time you can see them with flowers.

Here you can see my previous post of Bougainvillea  I really like it when it is full with flowers.

Miracle Garden

another post from Dubai Miracle Garden. 
It is worthy to visit before summer arrives here.

sea of flowers

3rd post from Miracle Garden.
for the first post click here
and here for the second one.

Miracle Garden-2

Second post from Miracle Garden.
there are so many old cars decorated with flowers. this one is quite pretty, isn't it?

If you want to see the first post, you can reach it from here

miracle garden

First they opened Miracle Garden last year, but I couldn't have time to visit before summer. This year when i have visitors from outside Dubai, I took it as a good chance to visit Miracle Garden this year.
They opened the Phase one with 45 million flowers last year. As you can expect it from Dubai, phase one got the Guinness world record for the "Largest Vertical Garden"

This year in 2014, phase 2 is ready to fully open within 20 days. It was amazing, I will post some more details from Miracle Gardens. I wish I could share the smell of the garden. even in Phase one smell was beautiful, on phase 2 there will be also one "Aromatic Garden" full of worlds most powerful aromatic flowers and even visitors can make their own tea from them.