Finding beautiful things to (temporarily) focus on and enjoy still in Hong Kong (Photo-essay)

There is so many terrible things happening in so many parts of the world.  I think many people (especially in the West) are focused on what's happening in Ukraine as well as their respective homelands.  But I find myself thinking from time to time re the troubles in places like Tibet, Xinjiang, Myanmar and Thailand too.  And if all our human-made problems (which I'd consider Hong Kong's fifth coronavirus wave to partly be) weren't enough, Mother Nature's been getting into the act too.  

 

Very early this past Monday morning, there was an earthquake in Guangdong Province which was felt by the likes of me in Hong Kong!  But although it was shocking for its rarity (as in it's only the second time that I felt tremors in the Big Lychee), it was nowhere as serious as that which shook much of the Japanese island of Honshu late last night (and got people worriedly recalling the Great Tohoku Earthquake that occurred 11 years and five days previously).    

 

Amidst it all though, I got a reminder (via WholesomeMemes over on Twitter) that even when things aren't going well in our world, we have to try to find something beautiful.  So here's sharing photos from yet another spring day stroll along the Victoria Harbour-front that I hope will provide you with a visual and psychic cleanse:

 

The past few days have been warmer than usual 

for this time of the year as well as welcomingly sunny

 

Perhaps because the weather was truly good, a pair of pet owners

decided to bring their parrots out to enjoy the sun and fresh air

by Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter! :)

 

Yup, there had more than one bird with them! (And yes, it's 

fairly normal for Hong Kong bird owners to take the pets out) :b

Bird number three -- the brightest of the bunch, and also the wildest 

in behavior (I get the feeling that if it wasn't chained, it would have 

flown away and joined the cockatoo crew that lurk about in Victoria Park!)

 

Looking westwards towards the setting sun (with visibility

so high I could clearly see Castle Peak in the distance)

 

If you looked in other directions at this point in the

late afternoon, the sky actually was still on the blue side :)

 

The low clouds over Kowloon Peak were a visual bonus!

 

Still more low clouds over the Kowloon Hills spotted

as I neared the end of my walk that late afternoon/early evening :)c