Spring is coming, enjoy flowers and food!

Have you noticed the colorful blooming flowers?
Have you ever got close to them and smelled them?
Have you ever kissed these lovely flowers?
I have!

If you are living in North West America, you must have many chances for gardening and yard work. You might spend several hours a week working in a garden. However, for a student who lived in a small city in Asia, and who devoted most of her time at school, I did not have much time to go to a park. I had never done any yard work before. Besides, the climate in my hometown is much drier than here. Flowers were less easy to grow outside the house. When I came here, I was amazed at so many beautiful flowers blooming outside in such cold winter. I was looking forward to the coming spring, because I was told that the spring here was really beautiful. Now, slowly and quietly, spring is coming!
These days, I go to school with my camera in hand. There are so many nice flowers. I want to keep this beauty in mind. How I wish I were a flower expert! I want to know these flowers' names!
Please remember, the beauty of nature exists only for whoever keeps an eye on it. Enjoy!

                             

Spring is a good season to wake up your stomach with healthy food.
I tried baking some biscuits this afternoon. The reason was that I saw some recipes on the back of the mix  flour box, in which biscuit is the easiest one. But I did not want to just follow the recipes, I wanted to create my own biscuit--let me call it Heng's Spring Biscuit! I did not add any sugar or butter  into the flour, because  I think sugar and butter may cause fatness. Below was what I added into the mixed flour.

1. Custard tart shaped biscuit: half-half milk, to mix the flour, sunflower seeds, sweet corn kernels, eggs, wheat germ

custard tart model makes these biscuits very cute!

2. Banana nut oat cheese bread: two bananas, oat, cashew, almond, pecan, sunflower seeds, pine nut, an egg, cheese, sweet corn kernels( because bananas contain water, I did not add any water or milk)

3. Orange oat nut corn biscuit: an orange, 100% orange juice, oat, wheat germ, sunflower seeds, cashew, sweet corn kernels, dried plums.

These biscuits are wonderful for spring.  I especially like the banana oat cheese biscuit because it is very soft inside, and a little bit crisp when I bite the nuts. Smell the fresh banana flavor--is there a better thing than this?  I proved that bakery could be good without sugar or butter. I find baking is really really enjoyable!
Spring is coming. What a great thing to take some home-made biscuits to the park, and enjoy the nice weather!