Sunny Sunday afternoon

It was rainy and gloomy early this morning. But as the Sun rises higher, the rain went away, and the sky started to clear. It was then when Ping started to 三心二意 (lose concentration), looking out the window after every paragraph Ping read - was reading on the significance of BGE measurement in modeling the net C flux between ocean and atmosphere (at the same time kept wondering why is it so hard to obtain similar measurements for soil environment...grrrr!).
Alright, no way is Ping staying indoors when the weather is so lovely outside! So off Ping went, planning for a picnic at the Rose garden. Unfortunately, the gang were not interested. So Ping ate her cheese, cucumber, turkey cold cuts with crackers while watching bits and pieces of 籃球火 - 小豬 is super kawaii!!! The basketball scenes just crack you up!

Went back to reading stuff for class and not too long later, Ping started looking out the window again and felt that it is just so wrong to be indoors when the Sun is shining so bright out and the weather is just lovely. Ping managed to get Jo to accompany Ping to take a walk at the MSU Perennials Garden and MSU 4H Children's Garden.

The bright yellow color always catch the eye, they look like bees buzzing all over the place.
A cute one. Double Japanese something...nope, Ping is not good with flowers. They remind Ping of sunny-side up.
A perfect rose!

Ping's favorite is the lavender colored flowers!!!!

Mummy, is this daun kadok (lon kaluk, the one that we use for nasi ulam) that air itam ahmah used to grow at the back corner of the house? What is the daun kadok called in English ar?
A nice quote at the garden entrance.
We ended the afternoon with a walk through the Sanford Natural Area. Thanks a bunch for the walk Jo! It was refreshing! Am glad we didn't waste the precious sunny Sunday afternoon.