Double Oleander, originally uploaded by malyousif. The oleanders are starting to bloom all over the garden, I’ve got 5 of them. Their lovely scent in the early evening is truly magnificent. This is the only “double” oleander I have and now I think I should have gotten all of them in this variety. Very beautiful. …
Day: March 30, 2007
I love la vache qui rit, don’t you? I don’t particularly care about the recently concluded summit in Riyadh in which all but one Arab leader attended. 21 of 22 is not bad, but anyway, I don’t care about what they discussed nor any grandiose declarations they emitted; the betting is that it’s nothing earth-shatteringly-new. …
In the early hours of this morning in Al-Bustan hotel in Manama a scuffle broke out between drunks, purportedly American, and hotel security guards. It is reported that one of the servicemen drew his pistol and shot the Bahraini night-shift guard Abbas Ali Salman Al-Shakhoori in the head. Al-Shakhoori has been taken to Salmaniya Medical …
White Cheeked Bulbul, originally uploaded by malyousif. The bulbul is disappearing fast from Bahrain due to not only the disappearance of its natural habitat, the palm groves, but the encroachment of new predators like the crow as well as it being sought as a song bird. The environmental agencies in Bahrain are trying to eradicate …