wEirD veGIes :S

id never actually realised how many werid and different vegetables i had in my backyard untill yesterday wen i was ssitting out in the yard filming my matchbox animals。

My grandparents are from china and are currently living in my other house...so over the past few years they have transformed out once nice and pretty garden into a boring vegie garden. its like we have a minature farm out the back, where we hardly have to go shopping for groceries now because of the wide range of fruits and veges we now have growingg in ou backyard:)

anyway...back to the weird vegies i spotted yesterday。。。

we have chokos in our backyard...which i find look VERY werid....:S...

the first time i saw one...i was intrigued by its werid shape, tecture and deadly looking spikes...

thye almost look alien to this planet.:S

side and bottom view of the choko:P

the cool thing about these choko plants is that they grow on a vine simular to that of a grape vine or a cucumber vine:P...i like vines:P the extreme delicate coils that look so fragile yet wrap around the fence with an iron grip makes me curious as to how this is possible. how can such a thin small vine entwine itself around objects with such strength that it could strangle the life out of another plant?? how could it even hold up these massive...chokos which hang by a thread of vine？？？

anyways yeah i was bored at the time so i decided to pick afew and make a study on them, playing around with colour and mediums. i workd with chalk pastels and tried to capture the textures and form of the choko. the contrast between the intricate vines and the large distorted fruit humours me， as it seems so out of proportion.

hrmm...tho not only were there these weird chokos...i also spotted these chillies which looked like small bells...i dont know if they are common or not but ive never seen them before until now.

from below they look awsome with flash on on the camera.

it shows a striking contrast etween the pale blue sky and the fireengine red hot chilli:)

*although im not much of a photographer:S*

they look so cute...i really like them for their werid shape and different forms:)

i wonder if they are hott:P