Grin and How is your sky today? (This week's Photo Hunt themes)

The photo at the very top of this blog entry is a real Photo Hunt rarity: one that I expressly took just a few minutes ago in direct response to Gattina's query of How is your sky today? Looking at it, I want to smile -- if not grin -- because I think it really captures the weather forecast for today in Hong Kong: i.e., very hot, and mainly fine apart from a few showers (This from the Hong Kong Observatory).  Because even while you can see nice blue skies in part of the picture, dark clouds full of rain are also threatening...

Moving on to images that really make me smile and grin: like last year, I went to the Hong Kong Flower Show this year but didn't put up a Hong Kong Flower Show-specific entry on this blog, content instead to wait for an opportunity to use them for a Photo Hunt entry (or more). Sandi's choice of theme this week presents me with just that.

More specifically, among the more imaginative entries at this year's show was one featuring a pair of gentlemanly individuals made out of flowers, one bearing a basket of cheery vegetable produce, with other sets of equally cheery looking vegetable produce assembled near them!  And yes, when I see such things, they serve to reconfirm my strong sense that Hong Kongers -- who often can look so serious, sullen even, when going about their daily business and routines -- really do have a whimsy- and kawaii-loving to them. :b