bougainvillea

I came across this beauty today morning. In this campus, the gardeners have overdone themselves – some bougainvillea vines meshed with tall trees have flowers as high as two or three stories.

It is one of my dreams to have the bright bougainvillea, like a flower explosion, in front of a house that I own. With a nomadic life for a decade, having lived in atleast ten or fifteen houses (lost count) so far in my lifetime and an apartment dweller for maybe half of it, this becomes even more of a sweeter daydream to have. Even though we have a dull pink colored (as the memes go, for me all of pink is pink) bougainvillea at the entrance of our current place, even if it is in the compound of the neighbor, who has sold the house and it is locked up now. Sometimes there is a clean, untouched flowerbed on the ground when it sheds it all at once.

At office, we have a sort of inner courtyard, with a fake grass carpet and real big flowerpots. It is one of my favorite places to take calls, walk around in circles, picking up bright yellow leaves. It helps to focus on the conversation than getting distracted with emails or pings and helps to think. Some of those large flowerpots have bright red (or variation of it – it is all red to me) bougainvillea.